Community Motto’s
Take care of today and tomorrow will take care of itself.
What is “One day at a time”?
To assume a role or attitude even through you are not comfortable or do not want to.
What is Acting as if?
Focus and personal efforts are expected to move toward a higher and consistent level of this.
What is Performance?
Used in the TC to foster the recovery and personal growth in various ways, can facilitate engagement, develop trust, encourage emotional risk-taking and self-learning, and teach interpersonal skills.
What is relationships?
Professional staff are a reflection of ABHS and work directly with or indirectly with the Community.
What is Staff as Community Members?
Nothing is given without cost, members should not expect, nor are they entitled to something for nothing.
What is “There’s no free lunch”?
Alerting others of negative self-destructive/defeating behavior, a sign of respect and responsible concern.
What is Awareness?
As members assume this for their own behavior and choices, they will extend this beyond self to their immediate peers, and finally to the entire community.
What is Responsibility?
Purpose of the individual is to serve the needs of the Community, but the relationship between the individual and the Community is mutual.
What is Community and individual balance?
TC treatment protocol is organized into phases of treatment that reflect a development view of the change process.
What is Phase format?
Learning is a process, what is learned at one point is the foundation for the next piece of learning.
What is “Step by step”?
Behavior expectations that govern how people will interact with each other and expectations about how they go about their daily lives in the TC.
What is Major rules?
Focus shifts from a more self-centered view to a greater world view and an increased appreciations or interdependence and strength of the community.
What is Self-examination?
The experiences essential to recovery and personal growth unfold through social interactions, the individual engages in the process of change primarily with other peers.
What is Collective learning formats/Community as the agent of change?
A period of intense treatment is needed to ensure the internalization of TC teachings.
What is Action plan?
Assertive reminder to the Community members to remember the basic goodness and potential of one’s inner self, particularly in times of despair, intimidation, and fear.
What is “Remember who you – you are worth it”?
This means teaching individuals to use Community life to learn about themselves.
What is Community as Method?
Independence occurs when individuals adopt positive changes internally regardless of outside influences and when independence increases as new behaviors practiced and used to help self and then others.
What is Self-sufficiency?
A primary source of instruction and support for individual change is the membership’s observation and authentic reactions to the individual.
What is Member’s feedback/Steps of Interaction?
Members who demonstrate the expected behaviors and reflect the values and teachings of the Community are view as role models.
What is Peers as Community members?
This instruction directs the individual to go ahead and change the behavior even before they understand why the change is good for them.
What is “Do it right, then you will understand why you have been doing it wrong”?
Seeing offensive characteristics in others that are really present in us, e.g. finger pointing, and its purpose is to protect us from admitting our own faults.
What is Projection?
Therapeutic Community is about living right, which means there is a healthy standard of behavior that is expected from each Community member.
What is Therapeutic Community Expectations?
This is an abstract idea; a general notion, or a plan or intention in the Therapeutic Community program.
What is a concept?
Completion of primary treatment if followed by aftercare services that must be consistent with the TC views of recovery, right living, self-help, and support of a positive peer network.
What is Continuation of recovery after TC program completion?