Early in the 21st century most jurisdictions
have closed traditional institutions for persons with developmental disabilities and now promote services and supports designed to achieve “social inclusion”. A social inclusion policy is directed at integrating persons with
developmental disabilities in local community services, thereby avoiding the
risks of isolation and neglect observed during the institutional era.
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| Intentional Communities |
Ironically,
as clearly articulated by Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, contemporary
communities often struggle to satisfy their members’ “human needs”: “No doubt
our industrial society is out to satisfy all human needs, and its companion,
consumer society is even out to create ever newer needs to satisfy; but the
most human need – the need to find and fulfill a meaning in our lives – is
frustrated by this society. In the wake of industrialization, urbanization
tends to uproot man from traditions and to alienate him from those values that
are transmitted by the traditions…. Read more>>>>>>>>>>
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