The New Ways of Upbringing: Contemporary Trends in Social Rehabilitation. Searching for Effective Methods Influencing the Socially Maladjusted

The paper is a report on the pilot research on socially maladjusted boys, which led to the development of a questionnaire to test their thinking and designate its factors. The starting point of the proposal is the theory of G. D. Walters and his thesis for the criminal mind. A similar project has not been conducted in Poland so far, it is an innovative test, completely adapted to the circumstances and cultural characteristics of minors in Poland. The article shows the importance of this project for working with minors and the possibility of changes that can be achieved in this way.

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