Aspetti relazionali ed organizzativi delle comunità terapeutiche per adolescenti quali fattori di trattamento: validazione di uno strumento

Abstract

The aim of this work is to propose a new instrument to investigate organizational characteristics in Therapeutic Communities for adolescents. Organizational Climate is considered as a specific therapeutic factor in a residential care treatment where the quality of the environment and the emotional atmosphere become essential aspects of communitarian work. In such a context, the working team is the main instrument of the treatment (educational and therapeutic). The questionnaire has been administered to 173 subjects, working in therapeutic communities for adolescents, searched in the whole of the Italian territory. The last version of the statistic, that has been carried out, enhanced 119 items.