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The Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation is a community mental health service model that helps people with a history of serious mental illness rejoin society and maintain their place in it; it builds on people's strengths and provides mutual support, along with professional staff support, for people to receive prevocational work training, educational opportunities, and social support.
Therapeutic community is a participative, group-based approach to long-term mental illness, personality disorders and drug addiction.The approach was usually residential, with the clients and therapists living together, but increasingly residential units have been superseded by day units.
Milieu therapy is a form of psychotherapy that involves the use of therapeutic communities.Patients join a group of around 30, for between 9 and 18 months. During their stay, patients are encouraged to take responsibility for themselves and the others within the unit, based upon a hierarchy of collective consequences.
Therapeutic community (TC) is a treatment approach, initially developed to address substance abuse and subsequently extended with a variety of services related to family, education, vocational training, and medical and mental health.
The Fairweather Lodge Program was developed by psychologist George Fairweather in California in 1963. [1] Fairweather found that patients with serious and persistent mental illness were less likely to require rehospitalization (i.e., "community tenure" is longer)when they lived and worked together in the community as a group, rather than individually.
Sociotherapy has been used in the treatment and education of adolescents at Kanner Academy and Community Schools in Sarasota Florida US. In These settings the working definition of sociotherapy is the practice of promoting healthy growth and living by facilitating therapeutic communities, personal relationships and positive peer culture.
Benefits of community-based program design include gaining insight into the social context of an issue or problem, mutual learning experiences between consumer and provider, broadening understanding of professional roles and responsibilities within the community, interaction with professionals from other disciplines, and opportunities for community-based participatory research projects. [4]
Social group work and group psychotherapy have primarily developed along parallel paths. Where the roots of contemporary group psychotherapy are often traced to the group education classes of tuberculosis patients conducted by Joseph Pratt in 1906, the exact birth of social group work can not be easily identified (Kaiser, 1958; Schleidlinger, 2000; Wilson, 1976).