SITUATIONAL THERAPY

Abstract

Situational therapy is a technique in which role, social relationships and the physical environment are used to bring about a therepeutic effect. According to Gootzeit (March, 1960), situational therapy is a process of instruction, training, counseling, and environmental manipulation in which an individual's pattern of activity is fitted to those minimal standards of behavior demanded by the community. A situational therapy program provides an activity setting (work, social, recreative, camp, etc.) in which an individual's pattern of activity is analyzed and guided by the intervention of activity therapists and their auxiliary workers, who attempt to modify problems of an emotional, physical or social nature in an activity setting.