ABSTRACT
Difficulties in role performance were mostly connected with work, but in several instances also with an inability to lead a reasonably orderly, settled way of life, to manage money and, more rarely, with roles as a parent or spouse. Most of the tasks were again of a very practical kind - to take all manner of steps to procure and keep accommodation, or to find work as a means of paying debts. Sometimes the task was formulated in terms of intermediate steps towards obtaining more adequate resources, for example, to find a day nursery for a child to enable a single mother to go out to work. Problems of social transition were experienced by people who had committed a delinquent act in a phase of severe disequilibrium while facing traumatic changes in their lives, or while attempting to come to some vital decisions about possible changes in their lives.
