What Exactly Is a Therapeutic Community?
Question by steel9maiden: What exactly is a therapeutic community?
Could you go into some detail please; the stuff that I found on Google gave one-sentence answers and were not very enlightening.
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Answer by soyabeanlover
support group ? ? Not sure myself :p
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a place that people with problems go kind of like a mental hospital lol
a bull crap community i hate any therapy…. it makes you feel worse dont bother….
What is a therapeutic community?
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The therapeutic community (TC) for the treatment of drug abuse and addiction has existed for about 40 years. In general, TCs are drug-free residential settings that use a hierarchical model with treatment stages that reflect increased levels of personal and social responsibility. Peer influence, mediated through a variety of group processes, is used to help individuals learn and assimilate social norms and develop more effective social skills.
TCs differ from other treatment approaches principally in their use of the community, comprising treatment staff and those in recovery, as key agents of change. This approach is often referred to as “community as method.” TC members interact in structured and unstructured ways to influence attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors associated with drug use.
Many individuals admitted to TCs have a history of social functioning, education/vocational skills, and positive community and family ties that have been eroded by their substance abuse. For them, recovery involves rehabilitation — relearning or re-establishing healthy functioning, skills, and values as well as regaining physical and emotional health. Other TC residents have never acquired functional life-styles. For these people, the TC is usually their first exposure to orderly living. Recovery for them involves habilitation — learning for the first time the behavioral skills, attitudes, and values associated with socialized living.
In addition to the importance of the community as a primary agent of change, a second fundamental TC principle is “self-help.” Self-help implies that the individuals in treatment are the main contributors to the change process. “Mutual self-help” means that individuals also assume partial responsibility for the recovery of their peers — an important aspect of an individual’s own treatment.
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