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This practical book gives students the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to communicate more effectively and interact more productively in the small group setting. With the help of this book, any group member can learn the skills necessary to participate in and lead a task group in an effective, productive, and healthy manner.

The second characteristic of a system is mutual influence. Mutual influence implies that cause and effect are interchangeable. Each action or behavior serves as a response to a previous behavior and a stimulus for a future action. This characteristic of systems theory makes any attempt to assign blame for any problematic behavior pointless, because that behavior was in response to a previous behavior. An example of this would be the “nag/withdraw” syndrome. A wife withdraws because

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