...David Kennard; Janine Lees Purpose 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 assessed as present to a greater or lesser degree, but at the same time reflect...

... Psychodynamic principles Residential therapeutic school Children (age groups) Health services United Kingdom Communities I propose to start with endings, that is my ending as director, or even more precisely my telling the children in January 2001 that I would be leaving in the summer. I choose...

...George De Leon Purpose This paper aims to provide a comparison of “old” democratic therapeutic communities, and “new” therapeutic communities for drug abuse. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a review of historical and cultural influences on therapeutic community development...

... is examined on the responsibilities removed from patients by prescribing treatment, both medication, and psychotherapy. Findings The literature describes how humans in their collectives, groups or communities, generate commonly held attitudes, which may coerce patients into certain roles, and to give up...

...R.D. Hinshelwood Purpose This paper aims to explore the dynamics of communities which decline and die. Design/methodology/approach The example of the Marlborough Day Hospital in the 1970s is used and analysed as a form of fieldwork. Findings It was found that the demise of the community...