ABSTRACT
This consideration is an important one and the demand for group workers in the residential treatment center is increasing and will continue to increase in the next ten to twenty years. Whenever you talk of a residential treatment center you speak not of an educational polishing process but of an "unpacking" process. This process must be related to particular phases of individual therapy. The group worker can provide the diagnostic assessment of group relevant data and secondary individual characteristics of high treatment relevance. They must design group life to support the individual therapy process and must also indicate to the individual therapist where the individual therapist's limits must be placed at any one time. Every part of life in the institution must be coordinated. We get a "backwash" from units of work in a residential center that we don't encounter in outpatient work.
