Basic Tasks of a Group Leader:

1. Create the machinery of therapy

2. Set the machinery of therapy in motion

3. Keep the machinery of therapy operating effectively

4. Remember that no technique takes precedence over "CHASE" - the core conditions of charm, honesty, acceptable self-disclosure (limited), and empathy

5. Build culture of group

6. Activate and illuminate the here-and-now

Creation/Maintenance of a Group:

1. Preparation before the group begins is crucial

2. Gate keeping

3. Stability

4. Unification - the therapist is the primary unifying force

5. Deterring anti-cohesiveness - continued tardiness, absences, subgrouping, disruptive extra group formation

6. Socialization, scapegoating

7. The more members want time, the more energy the group will have

8. Effective management of a person who tries to take over: "I wonder what hunches you have about how the two new members might be feeling today."

9. Physical survival of the group takes precedence