The Therapeutic Community

Carole brings over 40 years' experience working with those afflicted with, and/or affected by, substance use and mental health disorders to this passion project. After working in community-based clinical settings, she served as program director for a corrections-based Therapeutic Community (TC) and provided clinical oversight for six prison-based TCs. She is currently a Community Instructor at The Ohio State University, and a collaborative researcher, speaker, and author in the areas of TCs and Equine-Assisted Therapies. As a national surveyor for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities (CARF), Carole provides consultation to organizations in United States and Canada, many that operate accredited TC programs. Her Bachelor's Degree in Rural Sociology is from The Ohio State University; she earned a Master's in Social Science Administration from Case Western Reserve University and her Ph.D. in Social Work from The Ohio State University with dissertation, From a corrections-based therapeutic community to residential community re-entry. A qualitative study of offenders' lived experience.

1. Introduction: How we got here
2. Coming to a Therapeutic Community: Qualitative analysis of motivation
3. The Treatment Experience: Transferable Skills and Self-Awareness
4. Social Network Theory and Therapeutic Community Practice
5. Mutual Influence of TC, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Complex Trauma
6. From Prison Capital to Recovery Capital: The Process of Change of British TC
7. The Evolution of the Coolmine Community in Ireland
8. The Application of TC in the World of Work
9. The Application of Peer Support, the Shared Experience: TC Alumni
10. Future Implications: In the End, it's Relationship