| Abstrakt: |
The article focuses on the coordination between residential and community treatment of delinquent girls. When a delinquent girl is committed to a training school, the goal of the staff is to bring about sufficient improvement in her social functioning to enable her to live in the community more successfully after she leaves the institution. To achieve this goal, services for the girl's family should be coordinated with the treatment of the girl herself while she remains in the institution. This is not a new idea, but community services in behalf of persons in residential treatment are usually provided in a context of "aftercare," beginning late in the patient's intramural treatment. Accepting aftercare as an important part of treatment, but looking toward a more complete coordination and continuity of treatment, the New York State Training School for Girls features the simultaneous initiation of treatment services in the institution and in the community. Every effort is made to integrate the institutional program and the community services program and to acquaint the resident staff and the field staff with each other's problems. |
