Published in Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
Emotional and interpersonal support systems are fundamental to recovery-oriented support programs. Peerness represents the quality of shared lived experience that enhances such support programs. Through peerness, providers of formal peer support (FPS) strategically disclose their lived experience to help service recipients reach their goals. FPS di...
This article presents the demand from the relatives of patients at the Therapeutic Community of the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital in Granada for a space of contact, support, and emotional ventilation, in addition to group therapy work, for these families. It describes the initial phases of its creation, adaptation, and progress over thre...
Published in Journal of Yeungnam medical science
Poor sleep quality is associated with psychoactive substance abuse/addiction/withdrawal. Auricular acupuncture (AA) is a nonpharmacological method used for the treatment of sleep disturbances. This study aimed to examine the quality of sleep before and after AA in participants with mental and behavioral disorders due to prior multiple drug use in t...
Published in Addictive Behaviors Reports
Inpatient treatment for Substance Use Disorder (SUD), such as Therapeutic Communities and Residential Treatment has been used to test the effect of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) over different outcomes. Although there is evidence of the effectiveness of MBIs, little is known about the particularities that the place may have in the outcomes....
Published in Addiction science & clinical practice
The prevalence of alcohol use disorder (AUD) among women in South Korea has been rising, causing public health problems. Yet women's treatment needs are mostly unmet in South Korea due to the lack of women-focused treatment programs. This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and clinical outcomes of a therapeutic community (TC)-oriented ...
Published in Trials
BackgroundThe Philippines has been severely affected by the methamphetamine crisis. The government has launched a policy war against drug use, although the severe sanctions imposed on drug users have been criticized internationally. To help implement a more effective and humane approach to drug use, this study aimed to introduce a comprehensive tre...
Published in European Addiction Research
Background: Most severe substance use disorders (SUDs) are connected with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental health problems. Therapeutic communities (TCs) provide a suitable option for the treatment of severe SUDs. The relationship between ADHD, the severity of the SUD, and other comorbidities in residential TCs is un...
This article presents and describes some of the lines of work carried out in the Therapeutic Community Casa de Medio Camino Querétaro. It seeks to expose its achievements, limitations, as well as ways of stabilization achieved during the process of social inclusion of patients with schizophrenia. Through this local case study in Mexico, the difficu...
Prison-based therapeutic communities (TCs) are a widespread, effective way to help incarcerated individuals address substance abuse problems. The TC philosophy is grounded in an explicitly relational paradigm that entails building community and conditioning residents to increasingly take responsibility for leadership therein. Although TCs are based...
Published in Revista Colombiana de psiquiatria (English ed.)
To evaluate the associations between relapse and admissions (voluntary and involuntary) in a sample of patients with substance dependence. This is a cross-sectional study undertaken at a private medical therapeutic community specialised in treating addiction, located in a rural area of São Paulo, Brazil. Sociodemographic characteristics, the Univer...
