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Therapeutic communities: past, present and future
- Editors:
- CAMPLING Penelope, HAIGH Rex
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 272p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the tradition of therapeutic communities, their principles and their context in order to provide an introduction to both theory and practice. Includes chapters on: Northfield, set up during WWII to treat soldiers suffering from psychoneurosis; the therapeutic community approach to social psychiatry; the Cassel heritage and psychoanalytic origins of today's work; extending the group matrix to therapeutic communities; nursing and the importance of the psychosocial environment; joining and leaving; boundaries; ethics and consent; grief and despair in the large group; reflections on a creative therapies group; hospital communities for people with Schizophrenia; community care; prison communities and therapy within a custodial setting; children and young people; therapeutic communities in Europe; and five universal qualities that are the quintessence of a therapeutic environment.