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Towards a clarification of the ‘therapeutic community’ concept

Maxwell Jones
- 01 Sep 1959 - 
- Vol. 32, Iss: 3, pp 200-205
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This article is published in British Journal of Medical Psychology.The article was published on 1959-09-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Therapeutic community.

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Rehabilitation of the chronically mentally ill in England

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define rehabilitation as the process of restoring a handicapped person to a situation in which he can make the best use of his residual capacities within as normal as possible a social context.
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Psychotherapy in residential treatment: historical development and critical issues.

TL;DR: An examination of the historical development of the concepts of the milieu and residential care in the United States revealed how the emergence of differing theories of psychotherapy has influenced the creation of various models of residential care.
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Our place: design for a day program.

TL;DR: A day program operating as a therapeutic community under a nonmedical model of treatment and utilizing multiple interlocking group therapy exclusively is discussed, with particular emphasis on the importance of nonprofessional and ex-patient staff members.
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Staff and service users’ evaluations of therapeutic principles at a High Secure Learning Disability Therapeutic Community(LDTC)

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Psychosocial Interventions in People with Severe Mental Illness: A Bleulerian Perspective

TL;DR: Eugen Bleuler was a far-sighted social psychiatrist who concentrated on treatment issues and complex interventions that are considered cornerstones of care for people with severe mental illness one hundred years later.
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