What is it about?
It is difficult to grasp the meaning of Sociotherapy as a tool to change and recovery. A three days and two nights residential workshop can show you what it is like to live in a Democratic Therapeutic Community. Therapeutic Community principles are applied and the workshop description is a useful way to understand and learn about the ten quality standards of enabling environments
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Why is it important?
Therapeutic Community principles are applied and the workshop description is a useful way to understand and learn both about Maxwell Jones approach to recovery and the quality standards of enabling environments
Perspectives
I believe this paper illustrates the power of LLE workshop when TC worker training is necessary. It will help to decide to introduce LLE in formal training whenever group work is requeired. Even lay persons can derive great stimulus and learn ways to improve their team performance.
Dr Aldo Lombardo
Raymond Gledhill Therapeutic Community
This is of wider relevance than for just 'therapeutic communities'. It is about the prioritisation of 'relational' rather than 'procedural' practice in other areas of mental health, in other health settings, and in other statutory services.
Dr Rex Haigh
Royal College of Psychiatrists
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This page is a summary of: Transient therapeutic communities: the “living-learning experience” trainings, Therapeutic Communities The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, June 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/tc-05-2015-0016.
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