[1] The astronomical theory of climate variations predicts that the climatic precession which changes the seasonal distance between Earth and Sun does not affect the annual mean irradiation at any given latitude. However, previous modeling studies suggest that during interglacials, the interaction between atmosphere, vegetation and ocean can transform the seasonal forcing by precession into an ...

BACKGROUND In recent years, natural disasters and the accompanying health risks have become more frequent, and rehabilitation work has become an important part of government performance. On one hand, social networks play an important role in participants' therapeutic community participation and physical & mental recovery. On the other hand, therapeutic communities with widespread participation ...

The internment process in therapeutic communities (TC) involves a multiplicity of therapeutic practices and strategies geared to abstinence from drug usage. According to the specialists' own regulations and explicit objectives, the residents must not only abandon the consumption of substances but also adopt new practices, attitudes, emotions and significances through the use of therapeutic tech...

Wewelcome Steve Pearce’s news that a randomised controlled trial of therapeutic communities in the treatment of personality disorder is under way and look forward to hearing the results. 2 We acknowledge that therapeutic communities in the UK are now almost all day programmes, and we perhaps should have more accurately cited the most recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NIC...

Little is known about youths' experiences in residential adolescent treatment programs. To better understand the experiences of youth in such programs, the authors conducted a longitudinal qualitative study of 10 juvenile probationers in an adolescent therapeutic community (TC) treatment setting. Seven boys and three girls were recruited into the study upon their entry into the TC. Ages ranged ...

There are thousands of drug addicts in Israeli society who have lost control of their lives and cause harm to themselves, to their immediate environment, and to society at large. The therapeutic community is one type of setting that can generate change in the lifestyle of drug addicts. In Israel, two main types of therapeutic communities focus on therapeutic intervention in small groups: the Co...

The reactions of patients and staff were investigated in a representative sample of daily settings in a psychiatric inpatient ward in order to assess the relative amounts of variance accounted for by settings, individual differences, modes of response, and their interactions. The results indicated that, for patients, individual differences accounted for more variance than setting differences, w...