WELCOME TO
"A RADICAL GROUP-BASED THERAPEUTIC APPROACH"

Association of Therapeutic Communities,
Barns Centre,
Church Lane:address>:Street>,
Toddington, near Cheltenham:place>,
Glos.
GL54 5DQ
United Kingdom:place>:country-region>
Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1242 620077
Email:
post@therapeuticcommunities.org


ATC ACTIVITIES
Professional Interests

The Association of Therapeutic Communities grew up in the 1960s and 1970s as a supportive organisation for professionals who worked in therapeutic communities, who visited each others' units and shared ideas.

INFORMATION ABOUT
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES

JOINING THE ATC

It acts as a focus for information, debate, training and support - for anybody who wants their milieu to have a therapeutic effect on the residents, patients or clients; or for anyone who works in a therapeutic community.

DIRECTORY OF ATC-MEMBER TCs

  ATC CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS, AND OTHER FORTHCOMING EVENTS

 

 

The ATC also responds and makes representation to appropriate bodies on political and training issues, and liaises with organisations whose interests overlap with ours.

SEEKING A PLACE IN A TC

THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES JOURNAL
Subscribe - Contents - Archive of Papers

Individual members include nurses, social workers, researchers, psychologists, creative therapists, managers, residential care staff, teachers, psychotherapists, academics and psychiatrists. We also have a user group.

TC FAQ'S

 

VISITS TO THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES

 

THE JOINT NEWSLETTER

of the Association of Therapeutic Communities, Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, and Planned Environment Therapy Trust

These individuals share the view that the most effective kind of residential treatment or day care is where all members are involved in creating and maintaining the therapeutic environment.

STARTING A TC?

EMAIL DISCUSSION LIST

THE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY OPEN FORUM

Open to anyone with an interest in or involvement with therapeutic community

They believe that change occurs through belonging to and involvement in the life of a group or community - in a culture of enquiry and openness.

 

The QUALITY NETWORK
- "COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES"

With a secure sense of attachment and containment, the distress behind symptoms of problematic behaviour can be articulated, understood and changed.

ATC CONSTITUTION

POSITION PAPERS

 

DEBATES, DISCUSSIONS, PROPOSALS, ARCHIVES,

 

 

JOBS & VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

 

 




 

PLANNED ENVIRONMENT THERAPY TRUST

ATC HOMEPAGE

CHARTERHOUSE GROUP OF THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES

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