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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020

The Therapeutic Community: A Unique Social Psychological Approach to the Treatment of Addictions and Related Disorders.

George De Leon, Human F Unterrainer

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

George De LeonDepartment of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, New York City, NY, United States.
Human F UnterrainerCenter for Integrative Addiction Research (CIAR), Grüner Kreis Society, Vienna, Austria.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The evolution of the contemporary Therapeutic Community (TC) for addictions over the past 50 years may be characterized as a movement from the marginal to the mainstream of substance abuse treatment and human services. TCs currently serve a wide array of clients and their diverse problems; through advances in research in treatment outcomes, the composition of staff has been reshaped, the duration of residential treatment has been reduced, the treatment goals have been reset and, to a considerable extent, the approach of therapy itself has been modified. An overview of the TC as a distinct social-psychological method for treating addiction and related disorders is provided by this paper. Included in this is a focus on the multifaceted psychological wounds that consistently show a strong association with addiction and thereby require initiating a recovery process characterized by life-style and identity changes.

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community as methodoverview, group therapysubstance use disordertherapeutic community

Identifiers

PMID32848950
PMCPMC7424041

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