Conference paper
ANALISYS OF THE THERAPEUTIC FACTORS IN THE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY PODSUSED AMONG THE WAR RELATED DIAGNOSIS AND THE OTHERS
Sanja Martic-Biocina
; Psychiatric Clinic Vrapce, Bolnicka cesta 32, Zagreb, Croatia
Mirna Pandzic Sakoman
; Psychiatric Clinic Vrapce, Bolnicka cesta 32, Zagreb, Croatia
Josipa Bosak
; Mens sana, Practice for Neurofeedback, Mesnicka 15 a, Zagreb, Croatia
N. Stipic
; Psychiatric Clinic Vrapce, Bolnicka cesta 32, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Therapeutic community/TC/ is a sociotherapeutic method that uses sociotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic techniques for
various mental disorders. In Croatia, during and after the war many war veterans have been in treatment through TC and many of
them still participate in it. Majority of them were diagnosed with PTSD diagnosis, but some of them also had other diagnosis, e.g.
depression, paranoid delusion, etc.
In this paper we describe principles of TC that we use in Croatia and we also try to find out which curative factors of TC are the
most important for this population. We applied semistructured intervju based on Yalom book of practice and theory of
psychotherapy to explore what factors do war veterans find the most important and relevant for their resilience and better coping
with everyday issues.
Keywords
therapeutic community; war veterans; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Hrčak ID:
264577
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Publication date:
8.9.2015.
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