The Champion of the Cause and the Challenge of Supervising His Anti-Leader Role
DAVID S. KAZZAZ M.D.1
1 Chief of adult psychiatric division B, Fort Logan Mental Health Center, 3520 W. Oxford Ave., Denver, Colo. 80236
In his supervisory work with treatment staff groups at the Fort Logan Mental Health Center, the author observed that many teams developed problems which seemed to derive from the impact upon the group of a particular type of individual member, designated here as the "champion of the cause." The author describes the characteristics of the champion, his role in bringing about the disintegration of the group's effectiveness, and four different approaches to supervising him.
