ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the problems by presenting one kind of framework for understanding and utilizing a milieu as a therapeutic tool. It shows the history of milieu treatment and the place of notions of the milieu. The chapter considers the concept of the ego and its usefulness in conceptualizing the milieu's work of altering or changing behavior. It describes some learning processes that go on between adults and children and some teaching forms through which adult actions and arrangements can occur in a milieu. The chapter explores observations and experience at the Walker Home in Needham, Massachusetts. The availability of a varied program of activities for groups and individuals is thus one of the most important aspects of the milieu. Children are placed in a therapeutic milieu so that we can help them change their behavior. Conversations with children in the course of daily events are one of the key clinical skills required of adults in the milieu.
