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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was usually residential, with the clients and therapists living together, but increasingly residential units have been superseded by day units.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.
In 2007, residents began attending college and vocational training programs in an effort to improve their quality of life while getting treatment at Cenikor. [ 18 ] In 2010, Cenikor formed a strategic alliance with Odyssey House Texas to provide therapeutic community treatment services to adolescents.
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 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.
The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) is a United States trade organization of therapeutic schools, residential treatment programs, wilderness programs, outdoor therapeutic programs, young adult programs, and home-based residential programs for adolescents and young adults with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
The Seed was a controversial drug rehabilitation program in the United States that operated between 1970 and 2001. [1] Aimed at youths, the program was modeled after adult treatment programs, with its techniques having been compared to those of the cult Synanon. [2]