An introduction to therapeutic communities /
Therapeutic communities provide, in addition to safe accommodation and twenty-four hour care, a highly structured environment with set rules and timetables. This comprehensive introduction to the nature and work of such communities sets them within their historical and social context, looking in det...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
1998.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed., completely rev. and updated. |
| Series: | Therapeutic communities ;
1 International library of group psychotherapy and group process. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. The development of therapeutic communities. 1. Different origins - common attributes. 2. The rise and fall of moral treatment. 3. Democracy, psychoanalysis and planned environment therapy. 4. Psychiatry meets World War II: the hospital as a therapeutic community. 5. From innovation to application: therapeutic communities for people with severe personality disorders. 6. The therapeutic community approach in the treatment of the mentally ill. 7. Concept-based therapeutic communities for drug abusers. 8. Anti-psychiatry and alternative asylum. 9. The future of therapeutic communities
- Pt. II. Working in a therapeutic community. 10. The first day: an imaginary narrative. 11. Staff roles and some dos and don'ts for beginners. 12. Questions of training / Jeff Roberts
- Pt. III. Further information
- Key professional organizations in the United Kingdom
- Therapeutic communities in the United Kingdom
- Rest of the world contacts for further information.