A cross-sectional snapshot of therapeutic community client members

Authors:
LEES Jan, EVANS Chris, MANNING Nick
Journal article citation:
Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 26(3), Autumn 2005, pp.295-314.
Publisher:
Emerald

This article describes some of the characteristics of 242 client members of 19 therapeutic communities in England and Scotland. These included residential, day therapeutic communities and secure environment communities. The study aimed to describe and measure the populations of the therapeutic communities involved, in terms of their background characteristics and their symptoms and behaviours at admission; and to compare the population characteristics of different sub-groups of therapeutic communities in the sample. On the first day of data collection of a research project evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutic communities in treating people with personality disorders, everyone who was a client member of these communities was invited to complete a set of questionnaires. The authors report on the scores on the PDQ4+, a self-report measure of personality difficulties; and on the CORE-OM and Brief Symptom Inventory, two measures of state distress, to provide a snapshot of therapeutic community client members.

Subject terms:
personality disorders, prisons, residential care, therapeutic communities, day services, drug misuse, evaluation, gender;
Content type:
research
Location(s):
England, Scotland
Link:
Journal home page
ISSN print:
0964 1866

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