Social rehabilitation through culture

The purpose of this paper is to describe role of artistic culture for social rehabilitation. Social rehabilitation shall be considered an applied science and methods elaborated by its representatives determine to what extent it can be introduced in the process of educating socially maladjusted individuals. It is perceived as welfare, educational and therapeutic activity embedded from its very beginning in the use of art and culture as powerful means of human development. Th e author describes the concept of culturetechnique by C. Czapow, therapy through art and the most recent concept - creative social rehabilitation aimed at establishing creative potentials of socially maladjusted individuals.