Rod

Thanks for that. It is a common problem. The main trade journal in the UK (Drink and Drugs News) issues a directory of residential rehabilitation services. Last year they listed 28 who had said they were TCs (many of them also said they were 12 step!!!!).  The truth is that the vast majority are not TCs (although they may include some elements of TC practice). It is - in my view - an area where we have failed badly to establish a more acute understanding within the field of the basic principles of the TC and a clear understanding that it is a complete and distinctive approach. It is this failure as much as anything that has seen the undermining of TCs through the introduction of additional and often unnecessary elements and a consequent erosion of the TC model - what George De Leon has called the failure to sustain fidelity to the TC model. 
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On 18 Sep 2015, at 08:30 AM, "Rod Mullen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Rowdy-- I have no idea who is providing these services and that may be a clue as to whether they are really TCs.  Possibly provided by correctional staff-- which is always ineffective, or by a provider who really has no history of TC methodology (likely)--- in any case these attributions always hurt us

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On Sep 18, 2015, at 12:22 AM, Rowdy Yates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

A worrying development in the US as Idaho prisons decide to close in-prison TCs which they adjudge to be ineffective. It is not clear here either the structure of these TCs or of the nature of the research undertaken. US members on the list may have more information:

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Idaho-to-revamp-prison-treatment-programs-6512168.php

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