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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was usually residential, with the clients and therapists living together, but increasingly residential units have been superseded by day units.
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 (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 Daytop program, one of the oldest drug-treatment programs in the United States, [5] is based on the therapeutic community model [11] and emphasizes the role of peer interaction in their modes of treatment. Considered one of the most successful programs of its kind, it is described as "a supportive emotional community in which people feel ...
Community reinforcement has both efficacy and effectiveness data. [23] Started in the 1970s, community reinforcement approach is a comprehensive program using operant conditioning based on a functional assessment of a client's drinking behavior and the use of positive reinforcement and contingency management to achieve a goal of non-drinking. [24]
The Coalition for Community Living (CCL) is a national organization that promotes the Fairweather Lodge model and monitors the lodge programs. Each quarter, the CCL collects outcome data on each lodge to determine if it can be certified as a Fairweather Lodge. The outcome measures gauge adherence to the Faiweather principles and are designed to ...
Therapeutic boarding schools are boarding schools based on the therapeutic community model that offers an educational program together with specialized structure and supervision for students with emotional and behavioral problems, substance abuse problems, or learning difficulties.
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.