THE RESOLUTION OF PROFESSIONAL CLOAKS THROUGH AN INTERAGENCY GROUP EXPERIENCE

Abstract

How can two agencies that operate in the broad field of mental health join hands effectively; how can they strengthen their independence and still be dependent on each other; how can the people involved grow closer to one another wherein mutual needs can be satisfied and new capacities found and developed; how can these agencies become a unit which has greater strengths and potentialities than either group would have independently; how can this larger unit be used to help a community resolve some of its emotional problems? The struggle to find some of these answers, as we have lived it during the past year, is what we are writing about