Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities: Volume 33 Issue 1

Moral development as a crucial treatment goal for young people in institutional care: a critical comparison between milieu therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy

Lia Ahonen, Jürgen Degner

This article aims to analyze and discuss the role of moral development in treatment of behavior problems and, further, to describe differences and similarities between two…

Black men, therapeutic communities and HMP Grendon

Michael Brookes, Martin Glynn, David Wilson

This article is concerned with exploring the experience of black prisoners at HMP Grendon, the only prison in the country that operates wholly as a therapeutic community (TC).

Therapeutic community residency and emotional management of female drug users

Emma Colley, Julie Blackwell‐Young

The current study focused on five female offenders who completed the only female‐specific therapeutic community (TC) for drug addiction in the UK prison system. The aim of the…

Interpersonal childhood trauma and the use of the therapeutic community in recovery

Richard Cross

This paper aims to explore an integrated therapeutic care approach for a group of children and young people who have experienced chronic and enduring interpersonal trauma.

Therapeutic communities in mental hospitals

Stephen Wilson

During the latter part of the twentieth century, mental hospitals, originally built to provide asylum from the excesses of “community care” in the 1800s, began to be perceived as…

Writing Routes. A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writing

Simon McArdle

Therapeutic Journal Writing. An Introduction for Professionals

Simon McArdle

Preface to Steve Wilson’s paper “Therapeutic communities in mental hospitals”

Rex Haigh

Editorial

Steve Pearce