Main description:

* It explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs).

* Rooted in practice, this book examines the transferability of approaches within international TCs to other forensic settings.

* It considers how the environment contributes to effectiveness.

* The authors bring together leading clinicians from across the world to offer insight into the impact of gang membership on therapeutic process and the community.

* How core creative therapies are integrated.

* How the model is applied in international settings and across varied contexts.

* Leading clinicians draw on rare reports and papers to explain the therapeutic community model while keeping the diverse contexts within which it is practiced in mind.

* The book provides a much-needed global perspective on the diverse role TCs have across forensic services.

* This ground-breaking book is valuable reading for forensic and clinical psychologists, counsellors, social workers, and psychiatrists working in secure prison or rehabilitation settings, as well as students in these fields.

Contents:

Part I Practice perspectives 1. Changing the game: an intervention addressing the impact of former gang members on the therapeutic process 2. A community of women in prison: more than a voice - therapeutic use of visual and psychodramatic arts 3. Group supervision for prison officers (POs): an orthopedagogical approach to emotional management 4. Opbygningsgarden's drug rehabilitation programme at Kragkovhede prison in Denmark Part II Research perspectives 5. Evidence for the effectiveness of democratic therapeutic communities 6. Relationships work: experiences of therapeutic community residents 7. Evaluating the efficacy of core creative psychotherapies within therapeutic communities at HMPPS Grendon 8. Quality measurement 'from within' in Russian addiction rehabilitation centres: background, design and results of a Norwegian-Russian cooperation project 9. Therapeutic communities for substance abusers in correctional settings: the American experience Part III Narrative perspectives and developments 10. The 'gentle' revolution of new therapeutic communities for offenders with mental disorders in Italy: closure of the forensic psychiatric hospital (FPH) and opening of the therapeutic residential facility for execution of security measures (RESM) 11. The therapeutic community in California prisons: a narrative 12. The KETHEA PROMITHEAS TC in Greece 13. Hosting nurseries in prisons: prison-based 'mothers with babies' units as therapeutic communities 14 Collaboration, cohesion and belonging: can prison therapeutic communities provide a framework for imprisonment?