SERVICES
Remote Consulting
Concerned agencies can establish contact with this website and pose questions about TC techniques, their applications, and practice issues by writing to addictionlearning@yahoo.com. Answers will be provided or inquiries will be directed to other sources for answers or for relevant information.
Distant Training
Based on a selection criteria, drug treatment programs can request for assistance to obtain distant training on various topics related to the TC. Below is a sample training curriculum. Training curriculum can be tailor-made for specific purpose or need of qualified agencies:
Distant Training Curriculum
The Therapeutic Community
I. Theory
1. Introduction
History of Therapeutic Community
-Democratic TC
-Concept-Based TC
2. Therapeutic Community: Social Systems Perspective
3. The Three Overlapping Categories of TC Interventions
4. How People Change: Stages and Processes of Change
II. Practice
1. Interviewing Techniques
2. Counseling Strategies
3. The Behavior-Shaping Tools
4. The TC Groups
5. Organizing the Therapeutic Community
-The Function of the COD
-The Incident Book
-The Incident Folders
-The Log Book
The TC Structure
-Daily Schedule
-Chain of Command
-Job Changes
Staff Functions: Levels of Operations
-Community as Method
-Case Management
-Supervision
6. Crisis Management
Other Relevant Topics
1. Relapse Prevention and the TC
2. Community-Based Program and the TC
3. Stages of Change and the TC
4. Individual Conseling in the TC
5. Developing HIV/AIDS Prevention Program in the TC
6. Applications of the TC in Prisons
7. Motivational Techniques in the TC
8. Staff Training
9. The Role of Staff in the TC
10. Staff Supervision in the TC
11. Building a Therapeutic Environment
12. Integrating Mental Health Services in the TC
13. Integration of Paraprofessional (Ex-addict) & Professional Staff in TC
14. Monitoring Program Performance (Outcome Evaluation)
15. Spirituality in the TC
16. TC in Various Cultural Settings
