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The Therapeutic Community (TC) is a treatment environment where members support each other in a dual role of client and therapist, fostering personal change through structured interactions. It operates like a functional family with defined roles and responsibilities, emphasizing personal and social responsibility, moral codes, and work ethics. TC's mission is to promote transformation among its members and clients, aiming to integrate reformed individuals into society as productive, drug-free citizens.

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The Therapeutic Community (TC) is a treatment environment where members support each other in a dual role of client and therapist, fostering personal change through structured interactions. It operates like a functional family with defined roles and responsibilities, emphasizing personal and social responsibility, moral codes, and work ethics. TC's mission is to promote transformation among its members and clients, aiming to integrate reformed individuals into society as productive, drug-free citizens.

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INFORMATION ON THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY

THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY TREATMENT MODALITY

WHAT IS TC?

The Therapeutic Community (TC) is an environment that helps people get help while helping
others.

 It is a treatment environment: the interactions of its members are designed to be


therapeutic within the context of the norms that require for each to play the dual
role of client-therapist.
 At a given moment, one may be in a client role when receiving help or support
from others because of a problem behavior or when experiencing distress.
 At another time, the same person assumes a therapist role when assisting or
supporting another person in trouble.

HOW DOES TC LOOK LIKE?

The operation of the community itself is the task of the residents, working under staff
supervision. Work assignments, called “job functions” are arranged in a hierarchy, according to
seniority, individual progress and productivity.

 These include conducting all house services, such as cooking, cleaning, kitchen service,
minor repair, serving as apprentices and running all departments, conducting meetings
and peer encounter groups.
 The TC operates in a similar fashion to a functional family with a hierarchical structure of
older and younger members. Each member has a defined role and responsibilities for
sustaining the proper functioning of the TC. There are sets of rules and community
norms that members upon entry commit to live by and uphold.

WHAT ARE THE SALIENT FEATURES OF TC?

The primary “therapist” and teacher is the community itself, consisting of peers and staff, who,
as role models of successful personal change, serve as guides in the recovery process.

 TC adheres to precepts of right living: Truth/honesty; Here and now;


 Personal responsibility for destiny;
 Social responsibility (brother’s keeper);
 Moral Code; Inner person is “good” but behavior can be “bad”;
 Change is the only certainty;
 Work ethics; Self-reliance;
 Psychological converges with philosophical (e.g. guilt kills)

It believes that TC is a place where: One can change – unfold; the group can foster change;
individuals must take responsibility; structures must accommodate this; Act as if – go through
the motion.

There are 4 distinct categories of activity that help promote the change:

1. Behavior Management
2. Emotional/Psychological
3. Intellectual/Spiritual
4. Vocational/Survival

BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT

 Talk To
 Pull Ups
 Hair Cut
 Encounter Groups

EMOTIONAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL

 One-on-One Counselling
 Static Group
 Probe

INTELLECTUAL/SPIRITUAL

 Seminars
 Tutorials
 Games
 Readings

VOCATIONAL/SURVIVAL

 Development of Very Real Skills and Attitude to Help One Survive in the World

TOOLS - These tools serve more than just the purpose of curbing unproductive behavior. They
are also a means used for enforcing community sanctions on behavior that undermine the
safety and integrity of the community such as violations of the cardinal rules of TC:

- NO drugs,
- NO violence or threat of violence
- NO sexual acting out and
- NO stealing!
Everything an officer does is meant to erase “street behavior” and to lead the offender to be
committed to “right living”.

CATEGORIES

1. Behavior Management
2. Emotional/Psychological
REHABILITATION ACTIVITIES
3. Intellectual/Spiritual
4. Vocational/Survival

CATEGORIES REHABILITATION ACTIVITIES

Behavior Management Counselling


Emotional/Psychological Emotional Growth
Character Development
Community Service
Intellectual/Spiritual Literacy and Education
Moral Reformation
Vocational/Survival Livelihood
Skills Development
Job Placement
Health and Medical Assistance

HARMONIZED TREATMENT PROGRAMS


 Meant to erase “street behavior” and to lead the offender to be committed to “right
living”.
 Is the combined effect of the setting, the people, the rules and the norms that govern
the interaction of the members and the shared belief system.
 Tool that Administration uses to prepare the client for reintegration to the community
as a reformed, rehabilitated, productive, drug-free and law-abiding person.

TC MISSION
To promote human and social transformation among ourselves and among our clients.

TC VISION

By the end of this decade, TC shall have become the corporate culture of PPA, permeating its
plans, programs and practices, and confirming its status as a model component of the Philippine
Correctional System.

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