Community, Culture and Change
Edited by Rex Haigh and Jan Lees
Community, Culture and Change encompasses a wide range of ideas and theoretical models related to communities and cultures as a whole, embracing key Therapeutic Community concepts such as collective responsibility, citizenship and empowerment, as well as multidisciplinary ways of working and the social origins of distress. The ways in which our social and therapeutic worlds are changing are illustrated by the innovative and creative work described in these books.
Mutual Support and Mental Health
A Route to Recovery
Mental health services tend to view and treat mental health problems in an individual-centric way. This book argues for an alternative route to recovery that is cognizant of our social nature, needs and difficulties. Focusing on the therapeutic value of meeting others with similar experiences,... more »
2011, Paperback: £21.99/ $36.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-530-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp
Subjects: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Health, Social Work and Social Care
Keywords: counselling, group psychotherapy, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, therapeutic communities
Children and Adolescents in Trauma
Creative Therapeutic Approaches
Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools. more »
2010, Paperback: £22.99/ $36.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-437-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
Subjects: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Health, Social Work and Social Care, Psychiatry and Psychology
Keywords: adolescence, art therapy, arts therapies, attachment, challenging behaviour, child development, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, counselling, creative therapies, families, interdisciplinary arts therapies, mental health, pastoral care, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, residential care, social care, storymaking, teenagers, therapeutic communities, trauma, violence
Dynamic Security
The Democratic Therapeutic Community in Prison
'This book is well thought out and thorough examination of the challenges and opportunities of dynamic security. I would recommend this book to those who work with prisoners in the hope that some of the obvious good practice can be shared more widely and not simply retained in... more »
2006, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-385-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
Subjects: Health, Social Work and Social Care, Psychiatry and Psychology
Keywords: offenders, psychiatry, therapeutic communities
Setting Up New Services in the NHS
‘Just Add Water!'
This guide for setting up a clinical service in the National Health Service is based on the author's experience of leading a nationally funded project to develop two new specialist services in different parts of the country and involving three separate NHS Trusts. more »
2006, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-162-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 216pp
Subjects: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Health, Social Work and Social Care
Keywords: health care, therapeutic communities
Asylum to Action
Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond
Asylum to Action offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the... more »
2006, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-348-6, royal, 176pp
Subjects: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Health, Social Work and Social Care, Psychiatry and Psychology
Keywords: mental health, psychiatry, therapeutic communities
Dangerous and Severe - Process, Programme and Person
Grendon's Work
HMP Grendon hosts the UK's only prison-based therapeutic community, inhabited by around 200 residents, almost all convicted of crimes against the person, and about half of whom have killed. This is an inside account of the work, and the theory behind the work, carried out at a prison which not... more »
2004, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-226-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Subject: Working with Older People
Keyword: older people
Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatised Children and Young People
Theory and Practice
'This book gives extensive coverage to work by staff at the Cotswold Community, a therapeutic community of working with the psychodynamic principle, from 1994 to 2000. more »
2004, Paperback: £22.99/ $36.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-187-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Subjects: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Psychology
Keywords: child protection, child psychiatry, child psychology, community care, counselling, residential care, safeguarding children, social work, therapeutic communities, trauma, youthwork
The Time of the Therapeutic Communities
People, Places and Events
From the 1950s onwards different movements, ideas and key figures have contributed to the initiative which is now recognized as Therapeutic Communities (TCs). This book follows these post-war changes (such as "libertarianism" and the "open door movement") through to the present day and... more »
2003, Paperback: £25.00/ $42.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-128-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp
Subject: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Keyword: therapeutic communities
A Culture of Enquiry
Research Evidence and the Therapeutic Community
Research is an increasing priority for workers throughout the mental health sector, and therapeutic communities are no exception. Those working in TCs increasingly have to justify the success and efficiency of their methods to outside bodies, and the prime means of doing so is through... more »
2003, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-857-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 336pp
Subject: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Keyword: therapeutic communities
Therapeutic Communities for Children and Young People
Tackling the difficult issues facing those who work with traumatized and sometimes dangerous young people and their families, this new volume shows how professionals can bring about positive change and growth through the creation of "holding" and healing therapeutic environments. This... more »
2003, Paperback: £27.99/ $44.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-096-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 336pp
Subject: Health, Social Work and Social Care
Keywords: adolescence, child protection, children, safeguarding children, social care, teenagers, therapeutic communities
A Life Well Lived
Maxwell Jones - A Memoir
Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones' death in 1990, A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to the established... more »
2002, Paperback: £23.99/ $37.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-740-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp
Subjects: Fiction & Memoirs, Psychiatry and Psychology
Keywords: memoirs, psychiatry, therapeutic communities
Beyond Madness
Psychosocial Interventions in Psychosis
'This is the seventh volume in the therapeutic communities series and a highly informative and reassuring read for anyone interested in psychodynamic applications, or working with individuals with a mental illness.' more »
2001, Paperback: £34.99/ $55.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-889-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Subject: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Keyword: therapeutic communities
Therapeutic Communities for the Treatment of Drug Users
Concept-based therapeutic communities emerged out of the informal group meetings of Charles Dederich and a number of former Alcoholics Anonymous members in California in the late 1950s. The model was exported worldwide and has not only become the most widely used approach to residential... more »
2001, Paperback: £26.99/ $44.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-817-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp
Subject: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Keywords: drugs, therapeutic communities
Thinking About Institutions
Milieux and Madness
'This book not only documents how a therapeutic community functions, it also contributes to understanding how people can be influenced by their social setting and how individuals can form coherent social organizations together.' more »
2001, Paperback: £24.99/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-954-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Subject: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Keywords: mental health, therapeutic communities
A Therapeutic Community Approach to Care in the Community
Dialogue and Dwelling
'An intriguing, thought- provoking and thoroughly valuable book, as much for the imagination it releases as for the particular model that it describes. I would hope that this is what they were aiming at.' more »
2000, Paperback: £25.00/ $44.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-751-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Subjects: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Health, Social Work and Social Care
Keywords: social care, social work, therapeutic communities
Bion, Rickman, Foulkes and the Northfield Experiments
Advancing on a Different Front
'Northfield was referred to in tones of awe when one joined Group Relations work of the Tavistock Institute in the mid sixties, but there was never any detailed discussion, no flesh to the bones of the story. It was a mystery. Now, Tom Harrison has written of the myth and given it a substance... more »
2000, Paperback: £34.99/ $55.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-837-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp
Subjects: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Psychology
Keywords: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, therapeutic communities
Therapeutic Communities
Past, Present and Future
Examining the tradition of therapeutic communities, their principles and their context, Therapeutic Communities: Past, Present and Future is a wide-ranging introduction to both theory and practice. Including contributions by some of the most eminent figures working in therapeutic communities,... more »
1999, Paperback: £24.99/ $42.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-626-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp
Subject: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Keyword: therapeutic communities
An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities
Therapeutic communities provide, in addition to safe accommodation and twenty-four hour care, a highly structured environment with set rules and timetables. Within this environment they establish a set of relationships and meetings that provides a safe emotional container for distress. Members... more »
1998, Paperback: £25.00/ $42.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-603-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
Subject: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Keyword: therapeutic communities
