title: Amicatherapy: Theoretical perspectives and an example of practice.
abstract: Amicatherapy is described as a form of therapeutic intervention whereby laymen volunteers relate in sustained friendship roles to troubled and disturbed persons under the guidance and supervision of professionals. As a form of intervention, amicatherapy is differentiated from psychotherapy in terms of both its rationale and practice and is placed among the milieu therapies. Data are presented on a pilot project involving college student volunteers and local troubled children, upon which the formulation of amicatherapy is based.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Mitchell