2. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
An environment that helps people
get help while helping others.
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.
WHAT IS
TC?
3. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
An environment that helps people
get help while helping others.
A treatment environment:
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.
WHAT IS
TC?
4. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
An environment that helps people
get help while helping others.
A treatment environment:
At another time, the same person
assumes a therapist role when
assisting or supporting another
person in trouble.
WHAT IS
TC?
5. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
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.
HOW DOES
TC LOOK
LIKE?
6. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
This 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.
HOW DOES
TC LOOK
LIKE?
7. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
Operates in a similar fashion to a
functional family with a hierarchical
structure of older and younger members.
Each member has defined role and
responsibilities for sustaining the proper
functioning of the TC.
HOW DOES
TC LOOK
LIKE?
There are sets of rules and community
norms that members commit to live by
and uphold upon entry.
8. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
SALIENT
FEATURES
Primary therapist and teacher is the
community itself, consisting of
peers and staff
or probation officers and even
Volunteer Probation Aides, who,
as role models of successful personal
change, serve as guides in recovery
process.
15. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
SALIENT
FEATURES
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
16. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
SALIENT
FEATURES
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
17. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
SALIENT
FEATURES
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
18. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
SALIENT
FEATURES
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
19. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
SALIENT
FEATURES
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
39. serve more than just the purpose of
curbing unproductive behavior
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
NO stealing
52. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
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.
53. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
TREATMENT MODALITY
Tool that Administration uses
to prepare the client for
reintegration to the
community as a reformed,
rehabilitated, productive,
drug-free and law abiding
person.
54. TC MISSION
To promote human and social
transformation among ourselves
and among our clients.
55. 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.