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The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by
policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept
remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the
thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service
users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and
centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice.
Tackling Addiction examines what recovery, addiction and dependence
really mean, not only to the professional involved in
rehabilitation but also to each individual client, and how 'coerced
treatment' fails to take account of recovery as a long-term and
ongoing process. Chapters cover the influence of crime and public
health in UK drug policy; the ongoing emphasis on substitute
prescribing; the role of recovery groups and communities; and
gendered differences in the recovery process and implications for
responses aimed at supporting women. Tackling Addiction will be
essential reading for practitioners, researchers, policy makers and
students in the fields of addiction, social care, psychology and
criminal justice.
Concept-based therapeutic communities emerged out of the informal
group meetings of Charles Dederich and a number of former
Alcoholics Anonymous members in California in the late 1950s. The
model was exported worldwide and has not only become the most
widely used approach to residential treatment but has proved
enormously influential in the development of many other treatment
approaches; both residential and ambulatory. Concept-based
therapeutic communities are hierarchical, and the staff and
residents form a chain of command. Staff are often qualified for
their work by virtue of having been residents in such a community
themselves. Like other types of therapeutic community, a central
tenet of the approach is the emphasis on self help and the belief
in the influence of the group dynamic in facilitating therapeutic
interventions. Written by academics and practitioners from around
the world, this is a comprehensive overview of the development of
therapeutic communities and their benefits in the treatment of drug
users. Contributors describe how the model operates in the
community, and how it has been modified over time to fit different
settings, different types of client and different referral
requirements. Illustrated by descriptions of staff and client
experiences, this book also provides an inside view of how this
sort of therapeutic community actually operates. This authoritative
study concludes by examining the research evidence for treatment
effectiveness. It will be of interest to policy makers, managers
and researchers in the field of drug abuse treatment.
This book presents adaptations of the therapeutic community (TC)
model and method for special populations of substance abusers, and
implementation in a variety of institutions and human service
settings. Included are pregnant adult addicts and their children,
adolescents, prison inmates and parolees, the homeless, and
chronically ill clients in methadone treatment. The settings
include community residence and transitional housing facilities,
state prisons, county jails, homeless shelters, mental hospitals,
inpatient wards and outpatient clinics, as well as community based
treatment programs.
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