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‘I know you think I think – therefore I am’. Mentalisation based therapeutic community: a description
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2017. Purpose The Mentalisation Based Therapeutic Community (MBTC) is a group experience which promotes the acquisition of the capacity to mentalise. Members gain greater emotional stability and psychological robustness. Design/methodology/approach MBTC works with three theoretical principles: the intrapsychic, interpersonal and social. It is a slow open group where each member completes a 10 week course. The approach is deliberately non-interpretive with an emphasis on personal responsibility and accountability in ord...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - February 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Group-apartments for recovery of people with psychosis in Italy: Democratic therapeutic communities in post-modern social communities
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 213-226, December 2016. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a model of democratic therapeutic community (DTC) for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and psychotic disorder, namely the Group-Apartment (GA). The authors will describe it in more detail, discussing the ideas which lie behind it, considering the relative cost of treating people in larger residential DTCs and in GAs, outlining findings from the first data gathered on a GA and looking at the usefulness of this model in post-modern societies, w...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - November 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Adolescent therapeutic community treatment – an Australian perspective
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 204-212, December 2016. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the adolescent therapeutic community (ATC) literature – drawing on studies primarily from the USA with consideration made to the Australian context. Design/methodology/approach A review of the efficacy research for ATCs is considered, and the characteristics of Australians accessing ATC treatment are discussed in the context of developmental needs. Findings Similarities are found in what precipitates and perpetuates adolescent subs...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - November 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Integrated sociotherapy – IS from rehabilitation to recovery integrating sociotherapy and cognitivism in a TC for borderline personality disorders
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 194-203, December 2016. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain that an integration of cognitivism with sociotherapy is possible and appropriate to help severe BPD cases. What follows is both an outline and a rationale of this integration. Design/methodology/approach Recovery programs for serious BPD represent a challenge because they require complex answers in three problematic areas: interdependent relationships, emotional intensity and identity, virtually at the same time. This prompted Raymond Gledhill Commu...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - November 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Group-apartments for recovery of people with psychosis in Italy. Democratic therapeutic communities in post-modern social communities
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2016. Purpose In this paper, we present a model of Democratic Therapeutic Community (DTC) for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and psychotic disorder, namely the Group-Apartment (GA). We will describe it in more detail, discussing the ideas which lie behind it, considering the relative cost of treating people in larger residential DTCs and in GAs, outlining findings from the first data gathered on a GA, and looking at the usefulness of this model in post-modern societies, with particular reference to Sicily. ...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Adolescent therapeutic community treatment — an Australian perspective
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2016. Purpose This paper provides an overview of the Adolescent Therapeutic Community (ATC) literature – drawing on studies primarily from the United States of America (USA) with consideration made to the Australian context. Design/methodology/approach A review of the efficacy research for ATCs is considered, and the characteristics of Australians accessing ATC treatment are discussed in the con text of developmental needs. Findings Similarities are found in what precipitates and perpetuates adolescent substance...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Integrated sociotherapy - IS from rehabilitation to recovery integrating sociotherapy and cognitivism in a TC for borderline personality disorders
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2016. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain that an integration of Cognitivism with Sociotherapy is possible and appropriate to help severe BPD cases. What follows is both an outline and a rationale of this integration. Design/methodology/approach Recovery programmes for serious BPD represent a challenge because they require complex answers in three problematic areas: interdependent relationships, emotional intensity and identity, virtually at the same time. This prompted Raymond Gledhill Community the opp...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Understanding personal change through storytelling in a therapeutic community
This article explores the potential for personal and community transformation through storytelling within a therapeutic community through the analysis of one narrative case study. Design/methodology/approach The article uses a narrative research design to describe and theorise the individual narrative of a TC client member, ‘Emily’, who self-identified areas of therapeutic change. Emily’s story is a single case of personal and community transformation. Analysis focused on story of her weight loss to understand her changing role to her self and the community. Findings Emily’s story reveals the social comple xiti...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Changes in posttraumatic stress disorders symptoms during and after therapeutic community drug and alcohol treatment
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2016. Purpose This research investigated the changes in PTSD symptomatology during treatment in a drug and alcohol therapeutic community. Design/methodology/approach A repeated measures design was employed that looked at PTSD, depression, anxiety, and stress at a pre and post timepoint. A second sample was then evaluated at time of program completion to seven months post treatment. Findings PTSD symptomatology significantly decreased in individuals who had undertaken treatment, and continued to decline post treatme...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Editorial
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2016. (Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities)
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research