Task Group Therapy (1): Goals and the Client System.

What we have seen so far in this section, then, is that self-defeating behavior characterizes those task groups facing the most uncertainty, that this behavior is self-defeating in terms of group members' needs both to relate in satisfying and necessary ways to their tasks and to each other, and that the double-binding incongruent communication patterns associated with them are strikingly similar to those observed in severely disturbed families, In my next paper, I will discuss the practice of task group therapy itself, the process of intervening in and improving self-defeating groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]