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.