The Theory and Practice of Democratic Therapeutic Community Treatment.

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Offering step-by-step templates and tried-and-tested methods, this is the first treatment manual to show how to successfully set up and run a democratic therapeutic community. Highlighting key principles, this is an essential resource for running therapeutic communities in an informed way that produces consistent benefits for patients.

A history of therapeutic communities -- Why therapeutic communities? -- Therapeutic community-specific theory -- Belongingness -- Responsible agency -- Social learning -- Emotional progression and narrative -- The use of psychodynamic theory and techniques -- Group analytic influences and theories -- Group processes and systems -- Evidence for therapeutic community effectiveness -- General approach and principles -- Phases and timing -- Assessment and selection -- Democratic therapeutic community structure -- Boundary maintenance -- Quality of relationships and therapeutic method -- The use of psycho-educational and humanistic methods -- Anti-therapeutic processes -- Organisational relationships -- Organisational development -- Training -- introduction -- Experiential training for working in therapeutic communities -- Supervised clinical practices.

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