Small Group Therapy, Inc. began in 1964 with a National Institute of Mental Health Grant at the Benton Unit of the Arkansas State Hospital. The program was known as the "HIP" or Hospital Improvement Project program, utilizing Dr. George Fairweather's principles.

The program was the first Fairweather Program located in a community developed in the USA using concepts and principles of Dr. George Fairweather and Associates. The program includes the need for supportive and productive social sub-systems while encouraging as much autonomy and individual functioning as possible. At the present time Fairweather Lodges are in several states.

Small Group Therapy features the following supportive services, all of which are Dr. Fairweather's concepts: group-government, housing, personal responsibilities, case management and medical services, financial and accounting services and individual client support on a twenty-four hour, seven days a week basis.

Hundreds of individuals have been through the Fairweather program, and most have advanced to a more autonomous level of living. At the present time Fairweather Communities are located in Hot Springs and Helena, Arkansas.

Small Group Therapy was incorporated as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit corporation in 1970 under the corporate name of Small Group Therapy, Inc., 311 Whittington Avenue, Hot Springs, AR 71901. Fairweather Communities is an official name registered by Small Group Therapy.

Small Group Therapy, Inc. and Fairweather Communities, currently a division of SGT, Inc., operates as a certified behavioral health clinic, under the Arkansas Division of Behavioral Health. In 1994 SGT became an independent certified behavioral health clinic.