ABSTRACT
This chapter describes three different therapeutic environmental types. The objectives of a Level One group are to induce basic socialization skills and help the patient to an individual identity. The objectives of a Level Two group are to induce mature social interaction and work adjustment and help the patient develop the skills of self-determination and the feeling of a social identity. The objectives of the Level Three group are to induce problem-solving, interpersonal interaction, using the group as a microcosm of society. In this micro-society each person finds his social and individual role. The developmental process of any given psychotherapy group generates the potential for a therapeutic environment that is tailor-made by, and tailor-made for, the individual group members who contribute to it. Different goals, more properly termed sub-goals, perform a ladderlike function for the achievement of the major goal of a given level of group, which in turn is related to different phases of group development.
