... as much to the staff team as it does to the resident group and traditional inter-disciplinary hierarchies and intra-disciplinary hierarchies will need to be explored. Intellectual disability Complex needs Offending behaviour In-patient Residential culture Therapeutic community When...

...Jon Taylor; Sarah Trout; Janice Christopher; Alan Bland Purpose This paper seeks to explain the reasons for use of a therapeutic community for personality disorder in a high secure intellectual disability service. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes the rationale for, and early...