I met with the "father" of the therapeutic community, Dr. Maxwell Jones[1]. Jones started the first therapeutic community in England in the 1940s, designed for returning veterans from the Second World ...

Here is a practical interpretation of our TC Model today including the ten TC competencies and their definitions from my 1981 TC Certification Manual. It is designed as a guide to residential programs ...

San Patrignano stands out among the "therapeutic communities" that treat drug addiction. The 700-acre campus is nestled in ...

Outside the United States, the therapeutic community (TC) model is widely embraced, with currently 65 countries offering treatments and over 3,000 TC models incorporated into community settings across ...

The National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI) is pleased to announce a major grant from The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for a comparison study of substance abuse treatment ...

Therapeutic community gardening helped reduce loneliness as the pandemic paralyzed the nation, University of Essex research has revealed. A study that unfolded across three years of the COVID-19 ...

The rigid, structured schedule is part of the state’s intensive drug treatment programs, offered at 13 of the state’s 26 correctional institutions, including Dallas and Retreat. Known as “therapeutic ...

If there’s one thing just about everybody agrees on, it’s that the pair of double-wide trailers alongside the state police barracks in Middlesex just aren’t up to snuff for a mental health facility.

Group, Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 2003), pp. 31-39 (9 pages) Early psychoanalytic authors and music educators in both Europe and the United States pointed to the contemporary use of music therapy as a ...

Experiments of a different kind with therapeutic communities grew up during the last war as a by-product of military psychiatry – the morally indefensible attempt to use psychiatric medicine as a ...

But what Kropotkin's whole approach brings to mind most forcibly are the experiments made in different directions in this country in the last twelve years which we associate with two men, Merfyn ...