title: Social integration and the therapeutic community.
abstract: The therapeutic community should be defined as an environment which is enabling but not directive. The staff need to become aware of their therapeutic as well as anti-therapeutic potential. Conflict should be overt rather than covert. That society now sees the delinquent as 'sick' is two-edged: Abdication of responsibility is encouraged, and the sick role rewarded. This paper shows how the therapeutic community is effective in encouraging the delinquent to take responsibility for himself and for others. It shows what features make the therapeutic community effective for neurotics for schizophrenics.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D013808:Therapeutic Community