ABSTRACT
Once group leaders have helped to lead, guide, or even push the alcoholics and addicts past their precontemplation, contemplation, and preparation stages of change, the action components of recovery will become the dominant theme in treatment. Now, the group leaders' task will be to keep members actively engaged in the treatment and recovery process. This requires a series of special considerations concerning techniques on the part of the group leaders. Not only must they be keenly sensitive to the stages of an individual's recovery, they must also be acutely aware of the developmental stages of the group because it determines the functions that they will have to emphasize at each particular stage of recovery.
