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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry Ser. ; v. 5 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The historical development of therapeutic community approaches; Foster family communities; Homer Lane and planned environment therapy; The Camphill movement; Hospital communities; The concept house; Halfway house communities; Laing-ian communities; Conclusion; Chapter 2 The settings; Introduction; The Camphill Rudolf Steiner community; The day hospital community; Parkneuk; Faswells; Ravenscroft; Ashley House; Beeches House |
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The concept houseChapter 3 Reality construction, reality confrontation, and instrumentalism; Reality construction and the therapeutic community; Reality confrontation and instrumentalism -- the contrasting cases of Ashley and Beeches; Ashley House; Beeches House; Contrasts and similarities between the two houses; The other communities; The day hospital; The concept house; The Camphill community; Parkneuk; Faswells and Ravenscroft; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Resident progress; Introduction; Progress at the day hospital; Progress at Parkneuk; Progress in other communities |
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Variations in career patternsChapter 5 Audience and resident resistance; Introduction; Audience; Faswells; Camphill; The other communities; Recapitulation; Power, surveillance and resident resistance; Collective ideological dissent; Contested redefinitions; Non-cooperation; Escape; Concealment; Counteraction; Summary; Chapter 6 The impact of the external environment; Introduction; Faswells; Ravenscroft; The other communities; Summary and conclusion; Chapter 7 Conclusions; Implications for therapeutic community practitioners |
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1 Making fellow residents responsible for keeping residents in treatment2 The institutionalised aftergroup for the promotion of reflectivity; 3 The attendance of residents at staff change-over meetings; 4 The 'tight house' as a device to counteract institutionalisation; 5 Devices for increasing resident awareness of the mutability of community structure; 6 Resident selection of participating staff; 7 The offering of alternative sources of satisfaction to junior staff; Sociological implications; 1 Reflexivity; 2 Interpretation; 3 Intervention; 4 Domination; 5 Selectivity; 6 Habituation |
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7 Other conceptual approachesFor the general reader; Appendix: Research methods; Introduction; Choice of topic and settings; Data collection and analysis; The participant-observer observed; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index |
| Summary |
A comparative sociological account of eight different therapeutic communities, One Foot in Eden, originally published in 1988, was the first study in this area to compare observational material from such a large number of settings. The communities chosen represent the wide variety of therapeutic community practice at the time: a residential Rudolf Steiner school for mentally handicapped children; two contrasting residential psychiatric units; a community for the treatment of addiction; a communally organised community for mentally handicapped and disturbed young people; a psychiatric day hospital; and two contrasting halfway houses for disturbed adolescents. All these places are recognised therapeutic communities seeking to mobilise the social life of the community as an instrument of therapy, yet, as this study shows, they follow different (and sometimes antithetical) treatment practices. The book also directs new light on other areas, of particular concern to sociologists, such as the general properties of therapeutic work and the socialisation process as it is experienced by new community residents. It will be of special interest to therapeutic community staff, to sociologists of medicine and occupations, and to others involved in the care of disturbed and handicapped people |
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Print version record |
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Social psychiatry.
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Mental health facilities.
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Psychiatric hospitals.
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Community Psychiatry
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mental health facilities.
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addiction.
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mental health.
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psychiatric hospital.
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psychiatric unit.
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psychotherapy.
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Rudolph Steiner.
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social psychiatry.
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sociology.
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therapeutic communities.
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therapy.
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Mental health facilities
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Psychiatric hospitals
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Social psychiatry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McKeganey, Neil
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Fonkert, Dick
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| ISBN |
9780429851155 |
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0429851154 |
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9780429456244 |
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0429456247 |
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9780429851148 |
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0429851146 |
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9780429851131 |
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0429851138 |
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