Promoting psychosocial functioning and preventing malfunctioning.

Abstract

In the Greek milieu the ingroup has played the central role for psychosocial development. Under transition the ingroup becomes decreasingly effective in providing this function. If malfunctioning is to be prevented and if functioning is to spiral to higher levels of creating, producing and sharing, a training problem is required which includes extensive work along the lines of secondary and primary groups. The proposed training is based on the actualization of the dialectic between individual and group processes leading to their mutual differentiation. The development of skills for cooperation becomes possible. The program represents an effective way of promoting functioning and preventing the malfunctioning due to the currently accelerating socioeconomic and technological processes. Its effectiveness will be directly related to the degree to which the latter will be following cooperative directions also.