The Clinician in the Juvenile Correctional Institution: Frictions in an Emerging Collaboration

Frictions often arise between clinical and correctional staffs as they collaborate in their shared goal of modifying the antisocial behavior of the institutionalized delinquent child. Many of these- frictions spring from differences in focus and terminology and from conflicting attitudes of the clinical and correctional staffs. Identification of these sources of friction and active attempts to deal with them accelerate the integration of clinical services into correctional settings in a manner that most benefits the delin quent.