Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities: Volume 38 Issue 3

A search for integrating science, arts and practice: the legacy of Professor Eric Broekaert

Wouter Vanderplasschen, Stijn Vandevelde, Lore Van Damme, Rowdy Yates

Eric Broekaert (1951-2016): the life and legacy of a TC pioneer and integrative thinker

Wouter Vanderplasschen, Stijn Vandevelde, Franky D’Oosterlinck, Dirk Vandevelde, Jan Naert, Rowdy Yates

Eric Broekaert passed away shortly after the XVIth European Working group on Drug-Oriented Research (EWODOR)-conference in Rome on 28 September 2016. He was one of the great TC…

Milieu approaches and other adaptations of therapeutic community method: past and future

Steve Pearce, Rex Haigh

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the application of therapeutic community (TC) method in non-TC environments.

Identity change in a drug-free Therapeutic Community: a Lacanian interpretation of former residents’ perspectives on treatment process and outcome

Virginie Debaere, Paul Verhaeghe, Stijn Vanheule

In drug-free Therapeutic Communities (TCs), people with addictions live together in order to achieve recovery in terms of a modified drug-free lifestyle. Central to the TC…

Human rights, the capability approach and Quality of Life: an integrated paradigm of support in the quest for social justice

Jessica De Maeyer, Hanne Vandenbussche, Claudia Claes, Didier Reynaert

This paper highlights the integrative character of orthopedagogics. Quality of Life (QoL), as guiding the normative framework in orthopedagogics is explicitly connected with the…

The search for integrated paradigms of care for people with mental illness who offend: the enabling personality of Eric Broekaert

Freya Vander Laenen, Tom Vander Beken

As a tribute to Eric Broekaert, the purpose of this paper is to look back at a 2004 paper he wrote on the integration of paradigms of care and reports on how this is reflected in…

Du choc des idées jaillit la lumière: thinking with Eric Broekaert’s integrated and holistic paradigm of education

Griet Roets, Paul Smeyers, Michel Vandenbroeck, Maria De Bie, Ilse Derluyn, Rudi Roose, Bruno Vanobbergen, Lieve Bradt, Angelo Van Gorp

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how Eric Broekaert perceived “Ortho-pedagogy” as an academic discipline.

An alternating combination of art and science: the legacy of Eric Broekaert illuminated in the honorary doctorate for Alain Platel

Geert Van Hove, Elisabeth De Schauwer, Alain Platel

The purpose of this paper is to search for connections rather than particularisation, for two exceptional figures: Broekaert and Platel, and to explore the intersections between…

Women’s treatment on men’s conditions: a critical evaluation of selected literature and research findings

Vera Segraeus

Deviant behavior was punished during the middle ages. In the seventeenth century, people were locked up in asylums. A first step towards humanization was taken by the founders of…

Evidence and practitioners’ knowledge: some comments on a current discussion

Håkan Jenner

The purpose of this paper is to give a pedagogics-based contribution to the discussion about evidence-based practice (EBP) and its implementation, with substance abuse treatment…