Directory Entry: Member, Association of Therapeutic Communities
updated: 22 August 2005
THALASSA HAZ SEGELY HELYETT ESELY ALAPITVANY
Client Population: Adults/Adolescents
Referring Need: Long-term rehabilitation, Personality Disorders, Emotionally Disturbed, Long-term Neurotic Difficulties, Psychiatric Illness, Psychosis, Severe Neuroses/Psychological Problems, Alcohol/Drug addicitions Combined with Personality Disorders
We Take Clients From:
Service Category: Government, Health
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Address: |
1223
Jókai u. 23-25 Hungary |
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Contact Person: |
Agnes Szajcz, Psychologist |
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Phone: Fax: Email: Website: |
36 1 226 8433 36 1 226 4452 |
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Parent Organisation: |
n/a |
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Nature of Parent Organisation: |
n/a |
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Managerial relationship to Parent Organisation: |
n/a |
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Brief Description of Therapeutic Community Activities: |
Beside the everyday environmental activities in the community – household, retextil, gardening etc., therapeutic large group, verbal and non-verbal groups with analytically oriented theoretical background (Budapest School, Ferenczi, Bálint etc., object relation theories), psychodrama and playback groups, individual therapies, family therapy and consultation, socio-therapy, occupational therapy, counselling for in- and out-patients, group analytic team supervision. Organising conferences and open days. |
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Type of Client: |
Adults and adolescents suffering from complex personality disorders and/or with psychotic symptoms |
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Age Limit: |
16 – 60 |
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Average Stay: |
6 months |
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Number of Staff: |
33 |
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Number of Clients: |
33 in-, 16 daytime-, approx. 30 outpatients |
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Funding/Fees Requirements: |
Financed by the Governmental Health Service and from applications, donations. |
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Medical Care and Special Features: |
Psychotherapeutic culture combined with the necessary medical care. |
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Any Other Relevant Information: |
We have contract with the Governmental Health Service for
primary care for |
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What makes it a therapeutic community: |
We build and form the therapeutic system, culture together with the patients learning from each other. Our central values are: reflectivity, openness, dialogicity, agency, holding, containing, attachment, collective experiences. Active participation in the community life including cleaning, gardening, keeping rooms tidy etc. and defining the community rules. Retextil manufacture: making unique hand-made goods from recycled textile waste. |
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Involvement and Links with other professional organisations: |
We keep connection with the local health, social and educational services and institutions (Child Guidance Clinics, Family Care Services, Psychiatric Outpatients Services and Hospitals, Family Doctors). We participate in the postgradual psychiatry and clinical psychology, gradual psychology and social work education. Our staff members are members of the following Hungarian Associations: Hungarian Psychological Association, Hungarian Psychiatric Associations, Hungarian Psychoanalytical Association, Hungarian Family Therapy Association, Group Therapy Association, Hungarian Hypnosis Association, Hungarian Psychodrama Association. |
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Ongoing research, audit programmes, and/or effectiveness or quality procedures in place: |
We started our operation three years ago. Now we are starting a research to examine the agency factors and effectiveness of the system. We work in qualitative (computer aided content and discourse analysis of semi-structure interviews) and quantitative (self completing questionnaires, scaling methods) methods analysing therapeutic acts. We are planning to start an action research by the end of this year. |
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