Sociotherapy as a Way to Help Children and Young People with Functional Disorders
Sociotherapy as a Way to Help Children and Young People with Functional Disorders

Summary/Abstract: Early recognition of disorders in the behavior of children and teenagers as well as attempts to motivate them to change is a challenge for parents and teachers. In this article, a general view of sociotheraphy as a kind of psychological assistance will be presented “in the field of education and care-educational institutions, targeted at children and adolescents at risk and manifesting disorders in psychosocial functioning, which is based on intentional activation of help factors, using group processes to compensate for potential deficits in the psychosocial development of group participants” (Jankowiak, 2013, pp. 49-50). The contents of our interdisciplinary understanding of the sociotherapy concept will be presented in the article, as well as its goals, building a sociotherapeutic relationship, diagnosis and work in the field of behavior and upbringing, emotions and correcting one’s personal self-image.

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