Trust and Change : Thinking Points on Therapeutic Communities.

Cover -- Copyright and publication details -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Introduction and Overview -- Gender -- Democratisation -- So What is this Book for? -- Our Approach to the Subject -- Thinking Points -- Community Meetings -- What Happens in Community Meetings? -- What Does this Look Like in Practice? -- Agendas -- Some Commonly Asked Questions -- Thinking Points -- Four Pillars and a Footstool -- Democratisation -- Tolerance -- Communality -- Reality Confrontation -- The Footstool: No Secrets! -- Some Questions -- Thinking Points -- Culture of Enquiry: Living Learning Experiences -- Culture of Enquiry -- The Living Learning Experience -- A Cult? -- Thinking Points -- To Care or Not to Care? Two Sides of a Single Coin -- Re-traumatising -- Some Questions -- Compromise -- Thinking Points -- Boundaries -- Thinking Points -- Grief, Loss and the Failure to Mourn -- Some Questions -- Thinking Points -- Additional Therapeutic Aspects -- Small Groups -- List of Groups -- Complementary Therapies -- Integration With Other Services -- Structure -- Recording and Audit -- Expectations -- Assessment Procedure -- Thinking Points -- Typical Week's Structure: An Example -- Staff -- Supervision and Sensitivity -- "I'm not here for Therapy!" -- Role Modelling -- Victim Persecutor Rescuer -- Parallel Process -- Thinking Points -- Miscellaneous Aspects -- Bon Courage! -- On Return to the Outside World -- Outcomes -- Advice -- Transference and Counter-transference -- Some Exercises to Help Develop TC Skills -- Reflective Exercise -- Previous Writings from Elsewhere -- Aims (from early teaching at HMYOI Glenparva) -- The Task of Therapy -- From an Article Entitled "How Do TCs Work?" -- Taken from "A Beginner's Report" - HMYOI Glenparva -- Afterthought -- Select Bibliography -- Main References -- Other Resources -- Index.

Journey to Release -- Recovery Stories -- Back cover.

Trust and Change explains the democratic basis of therapeutic communities (TCs) and what exactly happens in community meetings including those in prison. It deals with commonly asked questions about TCs and describes their four basic pillars: democratisation, tolerance, communality and reality confrontation as well as the 'no secrets' principle (commonly referred to as a footstool). It examines the need to create a culture of enquiry and ways of avoiding trauma and other risks. It shows how TCs integrate with normal prison regimes and locations and the arrangements for record keeping and auditing. Throughout, the book contains 'Thinking Points' and gives examples of typical structures and schedules together with the aims, purposes and rationale of key aspects of TC work.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.