Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities: Volume 40 Issue 1

The SCIA Questionnaire: standards for communities for children and adolescents – a tool for the evaluation of good practices

Cinzia Guarnaccia, Anna Maria Ferraro, Maria Lo Cascio, Simone Bruschetta, Francesca Giannone

The purpose of this paper is to present the Italian validation of the standards for communities for children and adolescents (SCIA) Questionnaire, an evaluation tool of…

Madness and chaos in the culture of a therapeutic community

Jonathan Stephen Roger Leach

The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of staff members working in a psychiatric therapeutic community in relation to ideas of “madness” and “chaos”.

The recovery-oriented therapeutic community for addictions (ROTC): a response to contemporary substance use disorder treatments in the Philippines

Sixtus Dane Asuncion Ramos

The Philippines’ nationwide campaign on drugs has been under the limelight due to its controversial approaches in dealing with the problem of addiction. Despite the government’s…

The alumni club: interpersonal contact and the exchange of recovery oriented helping in a sample of former residents of a therapeutic community for women

Jessica V. Linley, Keith L. Warren

Aftercare is an important predictor of outcomes following treatment for substance abuse. Despite this, there is evidence that the great majority of substance abusing clients…

“I have more support around me to be able to change”: a qualitative exploration of probationers’ and parolees’ experiences living in sober living houses

Rebecca DeGuzman, Rachael Korcha, Douglas Polcin

Persons in the USA who are incarcerated for drug offenses are increasingly being released into the community as a way to decrease prison and jail overcrowding. One challenge is…

The experiences of perpetrators of filicide participating in treatment within a prison therapeutic community

Laura Jacobs, Richard Shuker

The purpose of this paper is to explore the treatment experiences of adult male perpetrators of filicide within prison therapeutic communities (TCs).