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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.

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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

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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.

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Gravel Barons versus a Therapeutic Community

This paper was first presented at the XIIth Anglo-Dutch Conference on Therapeutic Communities, Windsor, September 1990.

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The Cotswold Community: A Healing Culture

Based on a paper given at the IX International Workshop on Therapeutic Communities, Cumberland Lodge, London. September 1987.

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