Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities: Volume 39 Issue 2

Therapeutic alliance dimensions and dropout in a therapeutic community: “Bond with me and I will stay”

Luís Janeiro, Eugénia Ribeiro, Luís Faísca, María José Lopez Miguel

A better therapeutic alliance at the beginning of treatment for addictive behaviours has been found to prevent dropout. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how the…

The effects of craving on implicit cognitive mechanisms involved in risk behavior: can dialectical behavior therapy in therapeutic communities make a difference? A pilot study

Sharon Rabinovitz, Maayan Nagar

The purpose of this paper is to examine pre- to post-change in two components of implicit cognitive functioning following craving induction – attentional bias (AB) and executive…

Training for democratic therapeutic community practitioners, and workers in therapeutic and enabling environments

Steve Pearce, Oliver Dale

Training in therapeutic community and related approaches has not been widely available, and there is debate about the form this should take. This has had a negative impact on the…

Generosity, fairness, trust and time: the performance of therapeutic community residents in economics experiments

Anup Gampa, Jessica V. Linley, Brian Roe, Keith L. Warren

Therapeutic communities (TCs) assume that residents are capable of working together to overcome substance abuse and criminal behavior. Economic games allow us to study the…

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