An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities
David Kennard
Number 1 in the Community, Culture and Change series
Paperback: £22.99 / $39.95
1998, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-603-4, BIC 2: MMJT
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PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES. 1. Different origins, common attributes. 2. The rise and fall of moral treatment. 3. Democracy, psychoanalysis and planned environment therapy. 4. Psychiatry meets the second world war: the hospital as a therapeutic community. 5. From innovation to application: therapeutic communities for people with severe personality disorders. 6. The therapeutic community approach in the care of the mentally ill. 7. Concept-based therapeutic communities for drug abusers. 8. Anti-psychiatry and alternative asylum. 9. The future of therapeutic communities. PART TWO: WORKING IN A THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY. 10. The first day: an imaginary narrative. 11. Staff roles and some dos and don'ts for beginners. 12. Questions of training by Jeff Roberts, The Group Analytic Practice, London. PART THREE: FURTHER INFORMATION. Key professional organisations in the United Kingdom. Therapeutic communities in the United Kingdom. Rest-of-the-world contacts for further information. Recommended reading. References.
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A Workbook of Group-Analytic Interventions
David Kennard, Jeff Roberts and David A. Winter
With a contribution from Yiannis Arzoumanides
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