Interpersonal and group-behavior skills training for crews on space station.
With the advent of space station, planners must come to terms with the inevitable psychosocial crew problems that accompany long-term confinement. Although some problems may be resolvable with the assistance of an on-board professional therapist-consultant, others can only be settled by whole-crew training in interpersonal, emotional-support, and group-interaction skills. This article describes problems situations, kinds of skills training needed to resolve them, and the resistance that proposals for behavioral training might encounter.
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Management Science Department, Loyola University, Chicago, IL 60611.
D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D013026:Space Flight