One Foot in Eden: A Sociological Study of the Range of Therapeutic Community Practice.

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 805
Author(s):  
Juniper Wiley ◽  
Michael Bloor ◽  
Neil McKeganey ◽  
Dick Fonkert
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Sociological Study

Crisis and Confrontation

1968 ◽  
Vol 114 (507) ◽  
pp. 169-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell Jones ◽  
Paul Polak
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Individual Interview ◽  
Therapeutic Tool ◽  
Living Situation ◽  
The Individual

It is part of the magical aura of the physician that he must have some omnipotent tool with which he dramatically makes patients better. In individual psychotherapy the individual interview and the interpretation, like the surgeon's scalpel, provides such an omnipotent instrument. In therapeutic community practice it is often group therapy in the form of the daily ward meeting and the review that plays the role of the omnipotent therapeutic tool. But in our opinion it is the daily living situation and not the formally organized therapeutic meeting which provides the greatest potential for learning and growth on the part of patients and staff. We have found the crisis situation and its resolution to be potentially the most useful of these daily living situations.

scholarly journals Therapeutic community research: past, present and future

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rex Haigh
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Therapeutic Communities ◽  
Outcome Study ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Cost Offset ◽  
Multi Level

This paper gives an outline of four research areas examining therapeutic community practice: an international systematic review, health economics cost-offset work, a cross-institutional multi-level modelling outcome study and a proposed action research project to deliver continuous quality improvement in all British therapeutic communities. Results of the first two have been published and are summarised here; the third is under way and the fourth is seeking funding.

THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY PRACTICE

1966 ◽  
Vol 122 (11) ◽  
pp. 1275-1279 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAXWELL JONES
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Community Practice

scholarly journals Service innovation: a virtual informal network of care to support a ‘lean’ therapeutic community in a new rural personality disorder service

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Rigby ◽  
Dale Ashman
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Therapeutic Communities ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Community Based ◽  
National Programme ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Community Programme ◽  
Rural Catchment

This article presents a brief overview of service user-led informal networks of care in therapeutic community practice before discussing the design and evolution of a new kind of network in one of the pilot services of the Department of Health National Programme for the Development of Services for People with Personality Disorder (National Institute for Mental Health in England, 2003a). This network employs well-established internet messaging and chat room facilities uniquely structured and moderated to encompass therapeutic community principles and provide equality of access across a huge mixed urban and rural catchment area. Both hardware and software are inexpensive, easily transferable to similar services and could be modified to suit other applications. The success of this system in allowing challenging work to proceed in a much reduced therapeutic community programme may offer the prospect of many more community-based therapeutic communities at the heart of new personality disorder services.

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