ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes the tactic of retreat that will become counterproductive. Instead, building capacity to understand and manage group dynamics offers a longer-term way to deal with the inevitable problems involved in working with people who are not exactly the same. The issue of gang formation is a problem with no solution. In situations of crisis the shift from group to gang is very likely to happen. This uncomfortable fact is precisely a psychodynamic model of working with groups because it does not try to solve the facts of life; rather, it helps deal with them. The chapter describes the necessity of teamwork in health and social care, where bullying exists. Getting a perspective on bullying is difficult because it requires facing up to some hard facts of life. It is tempting to get all legal about bullying, and indeed bullying is bad, but cannot ban it.
