A participative, group-based approach to long-term mental illness, personality disorders, and substance use disorders. The approach is usually residential, with clients and therapists living together. Increasingly, however, residential units have been replaced by day units. Therapeutic community is based on group work (around 30 patients together for 9 to 18 months) and includes group psychotherapy together with practical activities.
Therapeutic communities have gained some reputation for success in rehabilitation and patient satisfaction in different countries, providing treatment for personality disorders, emotional and interpersonal problems, and substance use disorders.

This information is from high-income country countries, but it may be also useful for countries in other socioeconomic levels.

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Adapted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Internet. Accessed on January 12, 2020.