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The Therapeutic Community

Research and Practice

  • 1st Edition - February 21, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Carole Harvey
  • Language: English

The Therapeutic Community: Research and Practice brings together the diverse lens of these communities, illuminating and challenging current practice models and research. The book… Read more

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Description

The Therapeutic Community: Research and Practice brings together the diverse lens of these communities, illuminating and challenging current practice models and research. The book seeks to demonstrate the working collaboration between research-based and practice-based research, as well as filling the gaps for professions in behavioral health, neurobiology, corrections and workforce development. Each chapter explores how both environment and modality work together to change the quality of an individual's life. The reader is provided with a foundation and introduction to the language of 'Democratic' and 'Concept-based' TCs.

This book presents case studies, protocols, fidelity measures and emerging research to help readers incorporate applications into their own practice.

Key features

  • Provides a foundation, including historical perspective to present day therapeutic communities
  • Presents case studies, protocols and fidelity measures, including emerging research to help guide application towards a more unified practice
  • Addresses future implications, including modifications and/or adaptations for expanding treatment settings and populations

Readership

Practitioners and researchers in therapeutic and psychology, neurobiology, and behavioral health, Social workers, policy makers, community and treatment centers

Table of contents

1. Introduction: How we got here

2. Coming to a Therapeutic Community: Qualitative analysis of motivation

3. The Treatment Experience: Transferable Skills and Self-Awareness

4. Social Network Theory and Therapeutic Community Practice

5. Mutual Influence of TC, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Complex Trauma

6. From Prison Capital to Recovery Capital: The Process of Change of British TC

7. The Evolution of the Coolmine Community in Ireland

8. The Application of TC in the World of Work

9. The Application of Peer Support, the Shared Experience: TC Alumni

10. Future Implications: In the End, it's Relationship

Review quotes

*4 stars* "...discusses the use of therapeutic communities (TC) to help people suffering from substance abuse and other mental health disorders…. [in] theory and practice, along with research. [P]resents new applications to promote positive change, [and] aims "to help readers incorporate applications into their own practice."[P]rovides important information about therapeutic communities, with examples from around the world [and] it is very readable and practical. The clinical examples help to highlight the theoretical concepts. Clinicians who address substance abuse issues in their practice will find this book to be of great value."—©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Gary B Kaniuk, PsyD (Cermak Health Services)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 24, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Carole Harvey

Carole brings over 40 years' experience working with those afflicted with, and/or affected by, substance use and mental health disorders to this passion project. After working in community-based clinical settings, she served as program director for a corrections-based Therapeutic Community (TC) and provided clinical oversight for six prison-based TCs. She is currently a Community Instructor at The Ohio State University, and a collaborative researcher, speaker, and author in the areas of TCs and Equine-Assisted Therapies. As a national surveyor for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities (CARF), Carole provides consultation to organizations in United States and Canada, many that operate accredited TC programs. Her Bachelor's Degree in Rural Sociology is from The Ohio State University; she earned a Master's in Social Science Administration from Case Western Reserve University and her Ph.D. in Social Work from The Ohio State University with dissertation, From a corrections-based therapeutic community to residential community re-entry. A qualitative study of offenders' lived experience.
Affiliations and expertise
Community Instructor, The Ohio State University, OH, USA

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