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Traits associated with treatment retention in a therapeutic community for substance dependence
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 137-147, September 2018. Purpose The treatment of severe and chronic substance dependence is challenged by high rates of treatment attrition, highlighting the need to identify factors that hinder treatment retention. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The present study examined certain neurocognitive and personality traits in relation to treatment retention in a sample of 46 residents of an Australian therapeutic community (TC). The traits examined were previously found to be associated wi...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Recovery capital: a framework for the contemporary Therapeutic Community?
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 129-136, September 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the extent to which recovery capital can provide a theoretical and practical way in which to explore, explain and communicate Therapeutic Community (TC) processes and practices. Design/methodology/approach This is a 31-month ethnographic study of one situated residential TC in England. Findings The findings are usefully thought out as parallels, process and progress. Parallels can be drawn between the recovery capital literature and long...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Wellbeing and coping strategies of alcohol and other drug therapeutic community workers: a qualitative study
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 118-128, September 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the strategies utilised to facilitate the wellbeing of workers of an alcohol and other drug (AOD) therapeutic community (TC) Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on the findings of a qualitative study that involved in-depth interviews with 11 workers from an Australian AOD TC organisation that provides both a residential TC program and an outreach program. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis Findings Three main interconnecte...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The school as a therapeutic community
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 109-117, September 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the facets of Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and the potential relationships with teaching satisfaction in a sample of secondary school teachers (n=1,288). The study explored the potential of the school environment in fostering a beneficial community in which personal needs could be met and investigated potential disparities between male and female teachers. Design/methodology/approach The study utilised an electronic quantitative questionnaire to...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - October 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - June 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Generosity, fairness, trust and time: the performance of therapeutic community residents in economics experiments
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 98-107, June 2018. Purpose Therapeutic communities (TCs) assume that residents are capable of working together to overcome substance abuse and criminal behavior. Economic games allow us to study the potential of cooperative behavior in TC residents. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze results from a sample of 85 corrections-based TC residents and a comparison group of 45 individuals drawn from the general population who participated in five well-known economic experiment...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - June 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Training for democratic therapeutic community practitioners, and workers in therapeutic and enabling environments
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 93-97, June 2018. Purpose Training in therapeutic community and related approaches has not been widely available, and there is debate about the form this should take. This has had a negative impact on the field. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The authors consider the history of training in democratic therapeutic community methods in the UK in particular, and trace some of the reasons for its lack of development. Findings With the expansion of TC methodology into new areas, such as the...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - June 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The effects of craving on implicit cognitive mechanisms involved in risk behavior: can dialectical behavior therapy in therapeutic communities make a difference? A pilot study
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 83-92, June 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine pre- to post-change in two components of implicit cognitive functioning following craving induction – attentional bias (AB) and executive control – of patients in a long-term drug-free residential treatment center that incorporated dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) with usual therapeutic community (TC) practices. Design/methodology/approach Three groups of alcohol and cannabis dependent f emale adolescents were compared: pre-treatment (n=12), follo...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - June 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Therapeutic alliance dimensions and dropout in a therapeutic community: “Bond with me and I will stay”
Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities,Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 73-82, June 2018. Purpose A better therapeutic alliance at the beginning of treatment for addictive behaviours has been found to prevent dropout. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how the development of therapeutic alliance dimensions was associated with the dropout prevention. Design/methodology/approach A total of 23 participants presented a substance use disorder related to heroin or cocaine and were in three distinct treatment phases of a therapeutic community. Each participant filled in the therapeutic allia...
Source: Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities - June 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research