Evaluation of the
therapeutic community treatment model in Thailand policy implications for compulsory and prison-based treatment.
A 26 year old, white, single male with university education and a high-qualified job came to our
Therapeutic Community accompanied by his family after two years living abroad in the UK, where heavy use of mephedrone (always snorted, usually between 1 and 2 grams), on a daily basis, had taken place.
How do psychopaths behave in a prison
therapeutic community? Psychology, Crime & Law, 6, 139-154.
Mulder, Frampton, Peka, Hampton, and Marsters (2009) studied the retention rates of clients with co-occurring disorders in a
therapeutic community. Retention rates were reported as moderate to high.
De Leon, Community As Method:
Therapeutic Community For Special Populations and Special Settings, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Conn, USA, 1997.
Methadone patients in the
therapeutic community: A test of equivalency.
Created in 1991, Tapestry
Therapeutic Community (Tapestry) is located inside the walls of the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio.
Following transition from a military-style program typically used within men's prisons, the MWP has adhered to a
therapeutic community model of prisoner rehabilitation.
The sample for this study included 112 participants admitted in two Spanish
Therapeutic Community programs, PH Navarra (n = 48; 42.9%) and PH Asturias (n = 64; 57.1%) in order to receive psychological treatment for drug addiction.
Malcolm Pines argues that the "idea of running a psychiatric hospital as a
therapeutic community can be given a date of birth, it was May 1946" (1999, p.
Latent growth curve analysis was used to assess motivation change across 3 time points for 120
therapeutic community residents.
The participants were recruited from either outpatient (N= 83) or
therapeutic community centers (N= 29).
