An Emotional and Educational Experience for Urban Migrants
ROBERT L. LEON M.D.1,
HARRY W. MARTIN PH.D.2, , and
JOHN H. GLADFELTER PH.D.3
1 Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical School, San Antonio, Tex.
2 Assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
3 Clinical, Assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
This program illustrates the application of behavioral science knowledge to a center for urban migrants. The work of the center is preventive. Education in urban living takes place within a modified therapeutic community so as to promote learning at both the affective and cognitive level in order to prevent possible disorganization and regression which might result from a gross stress reaction precipitated by the migration.
