... 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...

... Kevin Healy kevinhealy@blueyonder.co.uk 30 03 2023 06 03 2025 23 06 2025 18 07 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Education Qualitative research Personality disorder TC practice Inpatient...

... Groups TC practice Leaving care The Acorn Programme was an inpatient Therapeutic Community (TC) for working-age women with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and/or struggles with self-defeating behaviours (Coakes et al., 2007). The unit was part of a larger...

... within mental health nursing degrees. Originality/value This paper supports arguments in favour of adjusting nurse education to include greater emphasis on relational practice. Qualitative research Personality disorder Psychiatric patients Psychoanalytic techniques TC practice Residential...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Therapeutic communities Personality disorder Day settings Psychiatric patients Groups TC practice The therapeutic community (TC) is an environmental and immersive intervention where...

... communities Personality disorder Psychiatric patients TC practice Prisons The Millfields unit is one of three medium secure hospital services for the assessment and treatment of high-risk offenders with severe personality disorder. It is based in the John Howard Centre, London, and is part...

... Therapeutic communities TC practice Substance dependence Prisons Social network analysis Researchers have begun to use social network theory and analysis as a framework for understanding processes in recovery from substance abuse (Best and Lubman, 2017 ; Best et al., 2015 ; Elreda...

... be contacted at: vnp@doctors.org.uk 03 04 2021 08 06 2021 08 06 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quantitative research Therapeutic communities Personality disorder Day settings Psychiatric patients TC practice...

... 2020 31 08 2020 03 09 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only TC history Therapeutic communities TC practice Prisons COVID-19 Social distancing In March 2020, things as we knew them changed drastically...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social networks Therapeutic communities TC practice Substance dependence Social learning Positive reinforcement In recent years, the literature on organizations has shown increasing...

... Therapeutic communities TC practice CBT Prisons Drugs Over the last six decades, prison-based therapeutic communities (TCs) have waxed and waned in the USA, as have their community-based counterparts. This has been particularly true of prison-based TCs in California, where they began as an early...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Qualitative research Therapeutic communities Groups TC practice Prisons Filicide Reviews considering the frequency of filicide [1] suggest that children are one of the most at-risk groups in terms of murder (Yarwood, 2004 ; Motz, 2014...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Substance abuse Quantitative research Aftercare Therapeutic communities TC practice Alumni clubs Messina, Burdon and Prendergast found comparable results in their 2006 study, where only 6 percent of the participants who completed both in-prison...

... operating in Santa Catarina. Third, to highlight the ethical and practical challenges of regulating religious TCs (RTCs) and the need for greater research into the role of religion, faith and spirituality in the treatment of substance dependency. TC history Therapeutic communities TC practice...

... Burnout TC practice Staff wellbeing Several studies have highlighted that alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment workers are particularly vulnerable to work-related stress and burnout (Duraisingam et al., 2007 ; Reissner et al., 2008 ; Oyefeso et al., 2008 ; Best...

... 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...

... and consultation in order to shape the ways that employees think about their work, enlisting them as corporate citizens. This trend has sometimes been termed as managerialism. Management Qualitative research Sociology Therapeutic communities TC practice Prisons The role of prison managers...

...Ian Williams; Gary Winship Purpose The purpose of this paper is to build a new theoretical framework for inscribing the constituents of therapeutic community (TC) practice in prisons and other secure psychiatric settings looking at three core element: homeliness, hope and humour. Design...

... Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Qualitative research Therapeutic Communities Substance dependence TC practice Identity change Psychoanalysis “Treatment research has been asking the wrong questions in the wrong way” (Orford, 2008 , p. 875...

... is a personal contribution. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Funding TC practice Therapeutic communities Residential TC history Marginalization The past three decades have been extremely difficult for therapeutic communities of all...