Do Therapeutic Communities work?

Generally personality problems have been considered one of the hardest set of problems to help with, and there is a lack of research in the area. Most interventions that have been tested have failed to show an appreciable or lasting effect.

There are a number of cost offset studies of Therapeutic communities around, all of which demonstrate a large decrease in use of services (seeing GPs, Psychiatrists, being admitted to psychiatric hospitals, use of psychiatric medication).

There is a range of information at the following website

National Personality Disorder Programme

For a review of the evidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic communities, follow the link below.