ABSTRACT
This chapter presents types of problematic behaviors and their possible goals, provides suggestions for interventions, and discusses some leader behaviors and attitudes that may also be problematic for a group. It also presents some helpful leader behaviors and attitudes that will assist someone in attending in a beneficial way to the challenges presented by a group member. Characteristic behavior refers to how the member usually relates and communicates with others outside of the group. Group leaders' responses to group members' challenging behaviors and attitudes are opportunities for the leader to model and teach more effective ways to respond to the challenge, to confront, to provide a corrective emotional experience, or to demonstrate how to initiate the interpersonal feedback loop. The final assumption is that the quality of the established therapeutic relationship plays a pivotal role in the success of addressing challenging behaviors and attitudes.
