Methodical management uses the living environment in a meaningful and planned way.
The daily living environment of the clients within the clinical system, is seen as an instrument for treatment. As the sociotherapists work in a team, this also means that all the interventions by the sociotherapists must be coordinated according to previously formulated overall treatment targets. The sociotherapists must be permanent attuned to an optimal balance between the interests of the group as a whole, the different subgroups within the community and the individual client. Sociotherapy is provided by a team of workers who, working together in a system of changing eight-hour shifts, guide the clients to give form to their daily life. The daily life, the daily interactions with each other, provide the sociotherapist with information about the potential and limitations of the clients and the sociotherapist adjusts his interventions according to this information.