Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities: Volume 33 Issue 2/3

Evaluating the environments of residential care settings

Rudolf H. Moos

The purpose of this paper is to review some research on the environmental characteristics of residential care settings.

The seeds of disaster

R.D. Hinshelwood

This paper aims to explore the dynamics of communities which decline and die.

Collective disturbance in institutions: a sociological view of crisis and collapse

Nick Manning

This paper aims to explore the precarious existence which therapeutic communities face and the recurring concern about their survival.

Leadership in a therapeutic environment. “What a long, strange trip it is”

Richard Rollinson

The aim is to explore important perspectives and structures that can inform leadership in a therapeutic environment based on psychodynamic principles.

The therapeutic community impulse: what makes it grow?

David Kennard

This paper seeks to provide a history and a prehistory of the therapeutic community movement, and a series of questions still debated in the field.

A checklist of standards for democratic therapeutic communities

David Kennard, Janine Lees

This paper seeks to grasp the nettle of developing a “checklist” of standards that can be used to accredit a therapeutic community, which are concrete enough to be objectively…

The next therapeutic community: autocracy, and other notes toward integrating old and new therapeutic communities

George De Leon

This paper aims to provide a comparison of “old” democratic therapeutic communities, and “new” therapeutic communities for drug abuse.

Therapy or coercion: a clinical note on personal change in the therapeutic community

R.D. Hinshelwood

Psychiatry in its traditional form, often relegates the patient to a passive recipient, and removes his/her agency. The paper aims to examine the reasons for this and the value of…

Editorial

Steve Pearce