Psychological Factors Limiting Institutional R Ehabilitation

7he undentanding qf whether and what kind of institutional rehabilitation is needed depmds (a) on the method used, and (b) on the objectives (values. goals etc.) (jf such analyses. TIe results 0/ such analyses qf dysJunctional or .functional element.5 depend on the .frame I!f refeunce. TIe hest methods used .for diagno.fi.5 are not very d/ective if the data are not intelpreted in a hroader frame 0/ reference, e.g. ill reiation to other institutiom and, lIIore important, in relation to the social and economic problems at hand. Furthermore, social change implies difficulties. TIe understandil~1', of the problems at hand is especially difficult in times 0/ rapid socia-economic change since the people involved in such diagnosis have hem socialized in the sptems whirh are unde~l',oing change. Another problem qf institutional rehabilitation lies in the transformation (jf the diagnosis into practice. Are the policies chosen ill the way that they are taking into account the problems qf the present situation and its emheddedness in a global situation, plus it.5 embeddedness in .future development and change? Finally, all)! institutional change will he infDective if the needs and goall of the individual persons who have to make the institutions work do not match with the institutional goals alld comtraillts. Not only tite question of accepting certaill institutions and changes of institutionl is relevant here. the question rather i, how.far do individual goals and abilities fit with institutional resources and constraints. 77ze goodness of fit must, again, be seen in the context 0/ change; (a) in the context of socio-economic and institutional changes and (b) in the context qf change., of the individual person during his or her lift course. Institutional change will not sucwsJully achieve the level of institutional rehabilitation if individual persons could identij) with such changes and Cflnnot match their own interests with the goals JOT such changes. Thus, the goodnen of fit between individuals alld their qualification alld goals on the one .fide and in.rtitutiorlfll resources and (Q1lstraints on the other side ill the process 0/ sono-economic chm/p,e are to be taken into accuU//t.