Promoting psychosocial functioning and preventing malfunctioning

Area of Science:

• Social Psychology
• Developmental Psychology

Background:

• The ingroup traditionally supports psychosocial development in the Greek milieu.
• Societal transitions diminish the ingroup's effectiveness, potentially leading to maladjustment.
• Accelerating socioeconomic and technological changes exacerbate these challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose a training program to prevent maladjustment and enhance psychosocial functioning.
• To address the declining effectiveness of traditional ingroup support during societal transitions.
• To foster higher levels of individual and collective functioning, including creativity, production, and sharing.

Main Methods:

• The training program emphasizes the dialectic between individual and group processes.
• It facilitates mutual differentiation between individual and group dynamics.
• The program involves extensive work with both primary and secondary groups.

Main Results:

• The training enables the development of essential cooperation skills.
• It promotes enhanced individual and group functioning.
• The program offers a strategy for preventing maladjustment in rapidly changing societies.

Conclusions:

• The proposed training is an effective method for promoting psychosocial functioning and preventing maladjustment.
• Its success is contingent on the alignment of societal processes with cooperative directions.
• This approach is crucial for navigating the complexities of modern socioeconomic and technological advancements.