Mutually Therapeutic Interaction Between Mental Patients and Delinquents
Abstract
Juvenile delinquents from an Illinois correctional facility for boys visit patients in a state mental hospital in a program to improve the delinquents' self-concept by enabling them to help others. For about four months the delinquents go to the hospital every other day to work with the patients in a variety of individual and group activities. Comparison with control groups has shown that at the end of the four months the self-concept of the delinquents improves, as does the behavior of the patients they visit.
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