title: Conceptualizing structure in a day treatment program for delinquent adolescents.
abstract: While effective limit-setting is essential to the treatment of delinquents, the burden of providing the necessary structure is likely to be too great for the staff worker to sustain on his own. A program is described in which structure was conceptualized as existing simultaneously at different levels--the physical space, the programmatic organization, and the worker-patient bond--thereby providing programmatic support to the worker in his relationship to patients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008884:Milieu Therapy; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000523:psychology