title: What is a day center?
abstract: Observation of the behavior of clients results in a classification of modes of relating to an outpatient milieu therapy organization. Considered as clients' definitions of the situation, they are: the waiting room, the alumni club, the hospital, the social club, and the day center. A distinction is made between these patterns of behavior and verbalized metaphors. The former are attributed to assumptions that vary among individuals and are relatively resistant to change. The latter refer to the social organization of the milieu and occurred in a sequence expressive of increasing autonomous activity on the part of the clients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Development and Family Relationships, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y..
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Rodgers