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The social climates of peer group and other residential programs

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Some presumed strengths and weaknesses of peer group approaches are discussed as the basis for this study, in which students' and staff members' perceptions of social climates in two peer-group and two non-peer-group residential treatment agencies were compared. Students from the peer group agencies sampled reported significantly greater satisfaction with their social climates than their non-peer-group contemporaries, and staff/student perceptions were more congruent in the peer group agencies than in the non-peer-group agencies. The results suggested that peer group programs can provide healthy, responsible therapeutic communities, and other implications are discussed as well.

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  1. United Methodist Children's Home, Worthington, Ohio

    William C. Wasmund

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Wasmund, W.C. The social climates of peer group and other residential programs. Child Youth Care Forum 17, 146–155 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01083857

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