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The majority of therapeutic communities treating drug users are 'concept-based': they are hierarchical with the staff forming a chain of command. In this authoritative new study, the authors explore the most significant differences between this approach and democratic therapeutic communities, including their hierarchical structures, their confrontational group sessions and their total prohibition of drugs.

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The majority of therapeutic communities treating drug users are 'concept-based': they are hierarchical with the staff forming a chain of command. In this authoritative new study, the authors explore the most significant differences between this approach and democratic therapeutic communities, including their hierarchical structures, their confrontational group sessions and their total prohibition of drugs.
Autorenporträt
Barbara Rawlings has worked in a hierarchical therapeutic community for drug users and a democratic therapeutic community for adolescents with behavioural difficulties, as well as conducting reviews on TCs for the Prison Service of England and Wales and the High Security Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board. She is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, and is currently conducting qualitative research in therapeutic communities. Rowdy Yates is director of the Scottish Drugs Training Project at the University of Stirling. He was previously the Director of a non-residential treatment service for drug users for more than two decades. He is the Executive President of the European Working Group on Drugs Oriented Research (EWODOR) and an associate member of the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities.