[Study of therapeutic community for drug dependence in San Francisco (I)].
Therapeutic Communities (TC) have played an important role in the recovery from drug dependence around the world since the 1960s. They employ multiple and comprehensive methods which include community meeting, life training, psychoeducation, psychotherapy, medical care, and vocational coordination etc. In Japan, there is not such comprehensive rehabilitation programs for drug dependence. In order to learn the programs of TCs, we attend the programs of Walden house and Asian and American Recovery Services (AARS), which San Francisco and rehabilitation programs in Japan and how to introduce the TC methods into Japan.
Morita
Nobuaki
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Department of Mental Hygiene, Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan.
Nemoto
Tooru
T
Wada
Kiyoshi
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Suetsugu
Sachiko
S
Okasaka
Yoshiko
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D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012495:San Francisco; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000628:therapy; D013808:Therapeutic Community