Membership
Sign up for a new TCTC membership or renew your existing membership here. TCTC is an inclusive organisation supporting, promoting and developing therapeutic practice in a wide variety of settings; from formal large communities, through smaller clusters of therapeutic services and including part-time, day communities and therapeutic enabling environments. We welcome applications from all individuals and organisations that are committed to the underpinning values and principles of therapeutic community practice as listed below.
Underpinning Values
Attachment
Healthy attachment is a development requirement and a basic human right
Safety
Everybody needs a safe and supportive environment to develop, to grow, or to change
Respect
People need to feel respected and not defined or described by other’s perceptions
Communication
All behaviour has meaning, and represents communication that needs to be understood
Interdependance
Personal well-being arises from relationships which recognise mutual need
Relationships
Quality of relationships determines the quality of intimate, family, social and working life
Participation
Ability to influence one’s environment and relationships is necessary for personal well-being
Process
It is often better for individuals, groups and organisations to reflect that to act immediately
Balance
Positive and negative experiences are necessary for us all
Responsibility
Each individual has responsibility to others, and others to him or her
1. Membership of a peer and practice network supporting, promoting and developing therapeutic practice to the wider society
2. Free online access to The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities
3. Engagement in the wider external debate with policy makers, decision makers and funders
4. External marketing and promotional activity across client sectors to promote the therapeutic model
5. Preferential access and reduced rates for the Annual Residential Conference
6. Preferential access and reduced rates for Training & CPD Events
7. Organisational members details listed and promoted on our website, www.therapeuticcommunites.org
8. Participation in research and development activity
Become a member to receive exclusive benefits
Individual members include a wide range of therapeutic communities and environments supporting adults and children. These are in the state, independent and charity sectors. The types of professionals that benefit from membership include: nurses, social workers, researchers, psychologists, therapists, managers, residential care staff, teachers, psychotherapists, academics and psychiatrists.
These individuals share the view that the most effective kind of residential treatment or day care is where all members are involved in creating and maintaining the therapeutic environment. They believe that change occurs through belonging to and involvement in the life of a group or community – in a culture of enquiry and openness with a conscious use of relationships.
With a secure sense of attachment and containment, the distress behind symptoms of problematic behaviour can be articulated, understood and changed.
Individual Membership Benefits include:
- External facilitation of group supervision
Support with service design or evolution at both strategic and operational levels - Support for organisations seeking to use the Therapeutic Service Standards (TC or TCC)
- Support in communicating or evidencing therapeutic practice to stakeholders (regulators, commissioners etc)
- Bespoke training days / workshop for providers
- Support with training, implementation and evidencing our TC Practitioner Competency Framework
Organisational Membership Benefits include:
- Presenting workshops at commissioners’ conference and other venues to help raise understanding and confidence.
- Training for commissioning, placement and social work teams
Supporting LAs in developing robust technical ‘specifications’ for their commissioning activity. - Supporting LAs in building shared dialogue and language with providers around therapeutic practice and systems/structures.
- Helping to audit the practice landscape in regions to better shape future sufficiency planning.
The Journal:
“Therapeutic Communities” is a quarterly peer-reviewed international journal which is accessible online free to our members, with optional print copies. The journal includes papers on practical, theoretical and research topics from Britain, Europe, North America and elsewhere. It is published by Emerald and electronic back copies are available to members.
Conferences and Meetings:
We act as a signposting service for training and CPD events across the therapeutic community network.
Our annual international conference is residential and open to day visitors. It includes academic, research and experiential sessions, as well as large group and small group experiences.
Scope for Involvement:
Members who are interested in becoming actively involved in promoting this approach, or liaising with other national bodies, are warmly welcomed. We wish to continue to grown an active community with opportunity to hear, support and engage with those within the therapeutic community world. At the same time we wish to educate, inform and enlighted those in the external world.
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