Is the 'community as method' approach gender sensitive? Client and treatment characteristics in European therapeutic communities. Results of the BIOMED II (IPTRP) project

The BIOMED II project, ‘Improving Psychiatric Treatment in Residential Programmes for Newly Dependent Groups through Relapse Prevention’, provided a large database of characteristics of men and women in European therapeutic communities (TCs). One of the aims of the project was to improve the treatme...

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Published in:International journal of social welfare 2006-04, Vol.15 (2), p.150-161
Main Authors: De Wilde, Joke, Broekaert, Eric, Segraeus, Vera, Rosseel, Yves
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
client characteristics
Community
Customers
Europe
Gender differences
Gender differentiation
gender sensitivity
Medical treatment
Mental health care
Psychiatry
SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Social welfare
Social work
Socialt arbete
Socialvetenskap
substance abuse
therapeutic community
Therapeutics
Therapy
treatment characteristics
U.S.A
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Summary:The BIOMED II project, ‘Improving Psychiatric Treatment in Residential Programmes for Newly Dependent Groups through Relapse Prevention’, provided a large database of characteristics of men and women in European therapeutic communities (TCs). One of the aims of the project was to improve the treatment of ‘emerging dependency groups’ through better assessment. Although American TC research has shown that there are important differences between men and women that should be taken into account when organising treatment, the BIOMED project failed to report on gender differences. This article tries to fill this gap by presenting an overview of the gender differences in the TC clients and lists the characteristics of the participating European TCs. The two overviews are given for each country separately. Descriptive methods were used. The authors discuss whether the TC programme considers the differences between men and women and whether the ‘community as method’ approach is gender sensitive.
ISSN:1369-6866
1468-2397
1468-2397
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2397.2006.00374.x