... Therapeutic communities Groups TC practice Inpatient Psychoanalytic techniques Day settings Each of us contributing to this paper has faced our own unique challenges and paths to development in life. Together we encompass many differing experiences of working therapeutically, and sometimes non...

... – a former client from the Acorn Programme. Findings The themes arising could be grouped into several broad categories; impact on life, impact on interacting with others, impact in managing stressful events, impact in dealing with mental health services, useful things taken forward and negative impacts...

... Foundations Group was a 2-h TC group intervention set up and run within the NHS for 18 months in 2021–2022, and taking place on City Farm premises. The group was convened as part of the complex emotional needs service in a mental health NHS Trust in the South West of England. Over the study period, the group...

... the TC approach with thematic group activities (TGA) intervention using an integrated individual approach to improve the outcomes. This study aims to evaluate the client’s behavioral changes after undergoing a TC approach added with TGA intervention for two months. Design/methodology/approach A mixed...

... a Jungian understanding of group psychotherapy and TCs was undertaken. A summary and discussion of a detailed written account of a previous Jungian TC was then conducted. A comparison between a modern-day TC and Jungian approaches was then conducted with an ending discussion on the feasibility...

... for a common thought. Findings Body become again an object of studies and with it also the group, as grouping of the bodies. Also the community become a now old-object of studies, as grouping of bodies and groups in a human environment. The objectives of this study are presented as the substance...

...-running the time may have been due to the members needing to demonstrate their competence and their independence from the staff in response to the failure to be at the opening of the conference, and unable to perform the division into three sub-groups in time. What was that difficulty? There are various...

... needs for this group, focusing on internal psychological processes, criminogenic and socio-environmental factors when understanding violence (including filicide) and may have potential to be of value to the perpetrators of filicide. RQ1. What have been the experiences of engaging...

... challenges. Training needs to include a number of elements to equip staff to work effectively in DTCs: © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Education TC history Day settings Groups TC practice Training Therapeutic communities have...

...Geraldine Ann Akerman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact having been in a gang has on being in a group in a democratic therapeutic community (DTC). In particular what characteristics attract (in this case) males to join a gang and or group, and what is the impact on a DTC...

... of mental health and experiential learning. For all three programmes, information was given out beforehand about the researcher and the research and evaluation project. It was also discussed with all participants in the first large group or community meeting held. It was stressed that the research...

... indeed target recovery for people with BPD in a much more efficacious and cost effective manner. 05 02 2016 13 04 2016 11 10 2016 11 10 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Therapeutic communities...

...Simone Bruschetta; Raffaele Barone Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a model of democratic therapeutic community (DTC) for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and psychotic disorder, namely the Group-Apartment (GA). The authors will describe it in more detail, discussing...

.... Originality/value – There is little existing discussion of the application of attachment theory to TCs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Security Therapeutic communities Psychoanalytic techniques Groups Attachment Social mind It is truly a privilege to have contributed...

... – Derived from condensation of numerous relevant psychological, sociological and systemic theories. Qualitative research Sociology TC history Personality disorder Groups Psychoanalytic techniques Windsor talk 2014 First, thanks you for inviting me – this is like the anchor point...

... inadequately prepared. John Diamond can be contacted at: jdiamond@mulberrybush.org.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 1. Group living: in which the residential therapy is delivered as a lived experience by a dedicated staff team who live and work “close...

...). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Education Resilience Attachment Parenting Children and young people Groups The goal of this paper was to demonstrate the significance of advances in the study of resilience for prevention and intervention programs for high-risk children...