A culture of enquiry : researching evidence and the therapeutic community / / edited by Jan Lees ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826282303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2004
• ISBN: 1-283-90474-8; 1-84642-424-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Collana: Therapeutic communities ; ; 6
• Altri autori (Persone): LeesJan
• Disciplina: 615.5072
• Soggetti: Clinical medicine; Therapeutics - Research
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Culture of Enquiry: Research Evidence and the Therapeutic Community; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I -Overview; 1 Principles and Practices in Therapeutic Community Research; 2 Therapeutic Community Research: An Overview and Meta-Analysis; Section II - Context and Methodologies; 3 The Research Context in the National Health Service; 4 Practice Evaluation of Therapeutic Communities; 5 The Research Context for Therapeutic Communities in the USA; 6 The Gold Standard: What are RCTs and Where Did They Come From?; 7 Characteristics of Effective Treatment Environments: A Process-Outcome Model for Research on Therapeutic Communities8 Using Qualitative Research Methods in Therapeutic Communities; 9 Outsiders on the Inside: Researchers in Therapeutic Communities; 10 The Psychodynamics of Being a Researcher in a Therapeutic Community: Living the Borderline Experience; Section III - Research Findings; 11 What Makes a Therapeutic Community? A Comparative Study of Ideal Values; 12 Researching Concept-Based Therapeutic Communities; 13 An Experimental Study of Treatment Outcome: The Cassel-North Devon Personality Disorder Project14 Assessing Outcome at Henderson Hospital: Challenges and Achievements; 15 Research on the Norwegian Therapeutic Community Network; 16 Economic Evaluations in Therapeutic Community Research; 17 Grendon: A Therapeutic ; Community in Prison; 18 Leaving the Therapeutic Community; Appendix 1: Stages Used in a CRD Systematic Review; Appendix 2: The 29 Studies Included in the Meta-Analysis; Appendix 3: Additional Sources of Information on Research Governance; Notes; Contributors; References; Subject IndexAuthor Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume collects a wide range of papers discussing all aspects of Therapeutic Community (TC) research. An invaluable resource for anyone involved in the field, it considers questions of which methods are most appropriate in the TC environment, how research studies affect this, as well as practical and ethical questions.