SOCIO-THERAPY AND SELF-ESTEEM

Abstract

The modern world is characterized, by constant and dynamic social, educational, and economic change. In such situation an individual person, especially a young one, is at risk of losing its ,,Ego“- identity. This risk is associated with the so-called „new freedom", which loses education based on timeless values such as: truth, goodness and beauty. This type of “liberation model” leads to the degradation of conscience, which, by its turn, leads to human tragedies characterized by a low sense self-respect, a number of pathologies, addictions to alcohol or drugs… Socio-therapy may be an antidote to mitigate or eliminate the negative norms and behavior in the environment and can be helpful (through empathic therapist interaction and appropriately selected therapeutic program) to strengthen the sense of one’s own identity.