[Sanatorium treatment of adolescents with borderline mental disorders]

The authors review the characteristic features of group formations, work patterns and the efficacy of the new organizational form of mental assistance to adolescents--the sanatorium health centre. Special emphasis is laid on the group of patients with border-line mental abnormalities of the residual organic genesis. The dynamics of those conditions is shown as related to the characteristic features of the structure of the treatment and health process. It is concluded that sanatorium assistance to adolescents turns out effective, provided there are new approaches to the group formation and a comprehensive differentiated structure of the treatment and health process.