Category — Papers written at the Cotswold Community
Circles – Viscious and Virtuous. Managing Groups in a Therapeutic Community.
The Cotswold Community is a therapeutic community, based on psychodynamic principles, that provides treatment, care and education for 40 severely emotionally deprived and abused boys. The boys live in four separate and fairly autonomous households (10 in each) which, together with a school, farm and extensive staff accommodation, forms a village type of community.
[ Read More → ]The Importance of Food in Relation to the Treatment of Deprived and Disturbed Children in Care
Pat Hancock, Sally Simmons and John Whitwell
International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, Vol. 11(2), 1990
Staying Alive: Is there a Future for Long-term Pyschotherapeutic Child care?
This paper explores the various aspects of “staying alive” which successful psychotherapeutic child care demands. My twenty-one years experience at the Cotswold Community provides a historical context for these observations.
[ Read More → ]Gravel Barons versus a Therapeutic Community
This paper was first presented at the XIIth Anglo-Dutch Conference on Therapeutic Communities, Windsor, September 1990.
[ Read More → ]The Cotswold Community: A Healing Culture
Based on a paper given at the IX International Workshop on Therapeutic Communities, Cumberland Lodge, London. September 1987.
[ Read More → ]