@article{ref1,
title="Alternative family structures as a rehabilitative model",
journal="Crisis intervention",
year="1971",
author="Prensky, William",
volume="3",
number="2",
pages="31-34",
abstract="Within the development of what has been called the counterculture, there has been noted the growth of a &quot;street culture&quot; which is in some ways quite distinct from those street cultures which have been studied previously. The emphasis on study and rehabilitation/treatment of street cultures has focused largely upon ghettos and minority groups disenfranchised because of their poverty and because of prejudicial conditions within society. The emergence of the &quot;street culture&quot;--young Americans with long hair and attitudes that can be broadly construed as antisocial with an intense involvement in drugs, often supported through prostitution--presents a different pattern than ordinarily presented by the traditional ghetto. There is a subjective feeling of being surrounded by what they often, rightfully so, consider to be a hostile social environment. This perception can exist regardless of the socio-economic background or &quot;status&quot; of their parental families.   The population of which we are speaking is comprised of young people, ranging in age from 16 up to 24 or 25. Generally called &quot;street people,&quot; they are characteristically high school graduates or dropouts who have few or no marketable vocational skills and profess no stable means of earning a livelihood. They manifest no clear goal-directed behavior towards a career and lack any aspirations towards one. They are transients or vagrants exhibiting a pathology that stems from malnutrition and/or toxicosis and have been or are currently engaged in illicit trafficking of drugs and/or prostitution. They are, in general, estranged from their families and receive no immediate support from them. Inclusion into a growing petty organized criminal class or death or disability from some form of toxicosis is not an unlikely final outcome.   This is a pathogenic society, a community of young people whose talents are not being actualized and who possess little or no vocational or interpersonal skills. There has been a strong clinically-oriented response on the part of communities which harbor these street cultures. This response has manifested itself in the form of free clinics and drop-in centers, hotlines, suicide centers, detoxification programs, venereal disease control programs, and a smattering of live-in rehabilitation centers geared to specific populations, primarily with specific drug addiction problems. These programs represent a response on the part of members of the community itself and are identified as being a part of that general mileau of which the street culture consists...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0045-9046",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}