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The third position
- Authors:
- LEES Jan, LOMAS Fiona, HAIGH Rex
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 40(3-4), 2019, pp.125-131.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the role of the expert by experience, and its benefits and challenges. Design/methodology/approach: Review of the relevant literature and a case study has been performed. Findings: The role of the expert by experience is fluid and complex. Staff need to understand the ambiguities of the role. Practical implications: Experts by experience (XBXs) play an important role in therapeutic community (TC) practice. They need support and supervision. Staff need to learn about the complexities and fluidity of the role, and to be aware of its transitional position between service user and staff member. Social implications: XBXs challenge the binary notion of staff and service user. The role calls for a different relational rather than procedural conceptualisation. Originality/value: This is the first description of the lived experience of an expert by experience, working in a therapeutic community setting, with the analysis of the helpful and unhelpful aspects of the role. (Edited publisher abstract)
Who comes into therapeutic communities? A description of the characteristics of a sequential sample of client members admitted to 17 therapeutic communities
- Authors:
- LEES Jan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 27(3), Autumn 2006, pp.411-433.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes characteristics of 313 client members of 17 therapeutic communities (TCs) in England and Scotland. These data were collected in a research project evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutic communities in treating people with personality disorders. It also compares the characteristics between different subgroups of therapeutic communities in the sample (eg non-secure/secure; residential/day). Their scores on a measure of personality difficulties (PDQ4+) and on two measures of state distress (CORE-OM and Brief Symptom Inventory) to provide a description of members willing to participate in the study. One significant finding of the study is that the women in addiction therapeutic communities have much higher scores of PDQ scales used but do not have particularly high BrSI or CORE scores that the other therapeutic groups. The men in the prison therapeutic communities appear to score lower than might have been expected on the PDQ.
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.