How to recognise a therapeutic community

Author:
ROBERTS Jeff
Journal article citation:
Prison Service Journal, 111, May 1997, pp.4-7.
Publisher:
Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales

Describes how the Association of Therapeutic Communities, an organisation in the UK which supports Therapeutic Communities, is both surviving and maturing. Despite this the Therapeutic Community remains relatively unrecognised as the major player in the field of mental health which an informed minority think it should be. Outlines the basis for recognition of a Therapeutic Community.

Subject terms:
mental health problems, offenders, prisons, therapeutic communities;
Link:
Journal home page
ISSN print:
0300 3558

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