Institute for Human Rehabilitation
Association of Scientists
Justification of establishment
Many people, including children, youth, and adults, may struggle to communicate normally due to congenital or acquired disorders affecting certain functions. Bosnia and Herzegovina faces a deep socio-economic and political crisis after the war’s end, leading to marginalization of human factors and relations. Disordered relationships and inadequate care contribute to severe social problems, resulting in harmful consequences for individuals. Reports of suicides, murders, crimes, juvenile delinquency, drug use, and protests by the disabled population highlight society’s neglect, lack of care, and inadequate education or rehabilitation. To address social neglect and the inability to organize sufficient care, an open-type Institute for Human Rehabilitation was to be established. This institute, grounded in scientific principles, would conduct research on social-humanistic problems, propose solutions, and involve a multitude of experts in related fields through projects. Its primary focus would be on educating and rehabilitating individuals in need of humane rehabilitation, aiming for successful socialization and integration into their communities. The Institute’s broad activities would have a meaningful impact not only on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans but also on the entire Southeast European region. Individuals in need of social care often lack adequate professional support, leading to a crucial need for education and rehabilitation. The focus should be on stimulating and developing each person’s values to reduce disturbances, deficiencies, or disorders. This includes populations with sensory impairments, pronounced post-traumatic syndrome, and those requiring resocialization, ranging from delinquent juveniles to drug addicts. By fostering positive values, these individuals can engage with social and objective reality in a healthier way, becoming equal and beneficial members of the community.
The Institute’s primary focus is on the social and psychological characteristics of potential clients globally. It aims to develop models for communicating with social and objective reality, encompassing diverse perspectives on structure, dynamics, and personality development. The successful reorganization and resocialization of individuals, who lack various biopsychosocial modalities, necessitate an institutional approach. To address this problem, the institutional approach involves well-organized, scientific, and programmatic action on humane structures. This aims at deep reorganization of forces in the organism and personality. By doing so, a new, distinct set of personalities can be cultivated within the untreated and neglected population, bringing forth vitality and altering harmful functions. Creatively and organically reshaping the human psyche and motivation facilitates the initiation of socially useful functions, establishing a new balance to replace the broken one. Scientific and expert treatment is crucial for these special personalities, which, directly or indirectly, result in weakened social positions, with the clear goal of compensating for shortcomings through various forms of restructuring.
The institutional approach to solving this problem, which burdens the community, implies a well-organized, scientific, planning-programmatic level of action on these humane structures, which will be aimed at the deepest reorganization of all forces in the organism and personality. In this way, it is possible to create a new, special set of personalities in this untreated and neglected population, which will awaken new life and new forces, change the abnormal directions of harmful functions, and creatively and organically reorganize and form the human psyche and motive for starting socially useful functions, building a new balance instead of the broken one. It is therefore necessary to scientifically and expertly treat special personalities, which directly or indirectly-secondarily, have as a result the weakening of their social position, with the clear aim of compensating the shortcomings with different forms of restructuring. Research shows that a large number of people with the aforementioned difficulties disappear from social flows, retreating into solitude, isolation, feeling like useless members of society, developing in such a way a “psychology of separatism” that turns into psychological trauma, which very often ends in suicide or death as the cause of such conditions. It is also known that in such cases, social communities in humane societies, in the case when the individual is unable and unable to perform his work on his own, institutionally support these persons in such a way that their central nervous system and psychological apparatus, through treatment approaches, take over on themselves the task of compensating for difficult work, creating the so-called psychological superstructure, with which people return to a state of normal functioning. Then the lack of disturbance becomes the main driving force of physical development because it encourages the need for overcompensation that will remove negativism, which according to social assessment criteria is highly prevalent in these people, including maladaptive behavior, and strengthen the person’s personality. In this way, ability is created from incompetence, strength from weakness, and the feeling of inferiority, insecurity is lost and the conflict that can lead these people contrary to healthy psychological and social development is silenced. Due to the psychological consequences of persons who have suffered damage, there are reactions arising from the unfavorable position of these persons with numerous unsatisfied needs. Such persons are classified as vulnerable, which is manifested through their feeling of marginalization and discrimination in society, as well as a feeling of reduced self-confidence and belief in the ability to participate equally in social life. Additional disadvantages for the psycho-social and other general development of these persons, in addition to the damage itself and the reduced possibility of social activation, leave extremely unfavorable living conditions, as well as their material endangerment and the absence of adequate support from the social community, which result in a feeling of lesser value compared to other members of society. community to which they fully belong. Motivational factors along with adequate institutional treatment, individual and group, is also a very important fact for the healthy general social and humane development of these persons. Positive reinforcement stimulates motivation, which has a positive effect on the development of emotions, arouses attention and interest, which accelerates progress and people become more self-confident, bolder in solving new tasks and braver in overcoming life’s difficulties. It follows that with institutional treatment, these persons, after humanistic rehabilitation procedures, of the most diverse profiles, will practically occupy a higher social position, which will influence the formation and strengthening of a new personality, and this will cause the development of increased sensitivity, attention and trust towards the environment, reducing the reactive behavior that is often interpreted as deviant or unusual, and it arose only as a response to the difficulties that such a person encounters in the social and natural environment, which also arises due to compensatory mechanisms, when a person tends to somehow protect himself from the difficulties that have appeared in front of him. That is why it is important to professionally intervene in a timely manner and help these people through institutional treatment, but also the family with advice and to permanently educate the family, which, as the basic cell of society, is most affected by these abnormalities of the growing number of these negative social phenomena that mainly arise from society itself.