ABSTRACT
Therapeutic communities (TCs) depend on resident peer feedback, in which residents affirm each other for prosocial actions and correct each other for actions that contravene norms, as a primary means of clinical treatment. We examine peer feedback in six different TC units as a dynamic social network to understand why residents participate in this feedback system, and to which peers they are most likely to offer feedback. This approach yields insights into TC processes that are not available through either qualitative research or traditional statistical methods.
