Social adaptation is a program that aims to develop useful skills, help in orientation and interact with the environment, and return addicts to a healthy, socially active life.
Social adaptation affects a person in two ways: a person adapts to environmental conditions, while changing himself, and the second, when a person tries to change or adapt the environment for himself, for his needs. This is a fairly lengthy process that is constantly happening, because the social environment is also changing.
Stages of social adaptation
There are 4 stages of social adaptation.
1. when a person externally recognizes the rules of behavior, but internally he does not accept the value system.
2. when a person is able to endure the requirements of the social environment and recognizes the rules of behavior in relation to other people.
3. when a person is able to adapt to the environment, he recognizes and accepts the system along with its values.
4. when a person is fully adapted, he completely accepts the new, abandoning the previous standards of behavior.
Help in social adaptation
In our country, for social support and protection of citizens who are not able to independently exercise their rights and legitimate interests, networks of rehabilitation and adaptation centers have been created in various regions of the Russian Federation.
Help with social adaptation can be received by people who have lost their homes, recently released from prison, caught in a crisis, women and children who have been subjected to violence, etc. During the period of social adaptation, psychological assistance is important. Specialists of crisis centers are developing programs for providing psychological assistance that help solve family problems, change conflict behavior, and control their own behavior in new social conditions.
Assistance in solving employment issues is provided by the centers for the promotion of employment and labor safety.
Assistance is rendered in solving problems of health care and ensuring social guarantees. An elderly person, like a person who has received a disability, needs to learn to live with disabilities, to adapt to the state of impaired vital functions and to learn to live in new conditions of his own limitations. Social workers provide and train such people to stay socially active and adapt to new living conditions as long as possible.
Assistance centers for drug and alcohol addicted people have been created, which carry out the main work on rehabilitation after a course of inpatient treatment. In them, addicts receive psychological, spiritual and moral support, visit a group of "drug addicts anonymous, or alcoholics", as well as legal and social assistance. They have to learn to live anew, some of them already have a poor understanding of what a normal lifestyle is.
Methods of rendering assistance in social adaptation of a person
1. There are various methods, it can be a conversation or counseling, inspection of socially significant places in the institution with a story about their purpose.
2. Accommodation in a boarding house for living. Here, for successful social and psychological adaptation, an important place is the selection of a room, neighbors, and service personnel.
