ABSTRACT
In common with many professional bodies of all kinds, therapeutic communities, which are, by the very nature of their work, concerned with helping others to change, find it difficult to make such a longer-term consideration part of their current ways of thinking and operating. Recognizing and respecting the organizational aspects and requirements of the therapeutic community for the contribution the staff can make to the re-adaptive process and experience for the residents not only entails fulfilling the tasks required of therapeutic community services, maintenance, administration, kitchen, management. The development of promising staff has always been of the highest priority. Key members of staff are sent to special international working conferences, which bring them into close working contact and comparison with the many fields of endeavour operating in society today. Therapeutic communities are also organizations. They should be providing wide range of activities and processes through which the individual can face him- or herself, both within the person and with others.
