1. What is Therapeutic Modalities?

 The Therapeutic Community Modality is a self-help social learning

treatment model used for clients with problems of drug abuse and other
behavioral problems such as alcoholism, stealing, and other anti-social
tendencies.
 The Therapeutic Community (TC) is an environment that helps people get
help while helping others. It is a treatment environment: the interactions of
its members are designed to be therapeutic within the context of the
norms that require for each to play the dual role of client-therapist. At a
given moment, one may be in a client role when receiving help or support
from others because of a problem behavior or when experiencing distress.
At another time, the same person assumes a therapist role when assisting
or supporting another person in trouble.

1.1 Define Therapeutic

 According to Merriam Webster Therapeutic is relating to the treatment
of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods.
1.2 Explain Modalities
 Modalities refer to different methods or approaches used to
understand, analyze, and explain criminal behavior and the factors
that contribute to it.
1.3 Define Modalities
 Modalities refer to different forms or channels through which
information is conveyed or perceived. They can include various
senses such as sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. In various
contexts, the term can also apply to different modes of communication,
learning, or interaction, such as visual, auditory, kinesthetic, or even
technological interfaces.

2. Origin/Timeline of Therapeutic Modalities

 TC or the Therapeutic Care in the Philippines began in the 1970s
when the then Drug Abuse Research Foundation Inc. (DARE) opened
Bahay Pag-Asa for heroin addicts in Trece Martires, Cavite. It was the
first Asian TC. Other residential treatment centers opened around
Manila and in Baguio City. Through DARE, TC spread to Malaysia,
Thailand and other Asian countries. Now there are community-based
and prison-based TCs in many of these countries.
3. What agency implements therapeutic modalities including its functions?
 BJMP implements the Therapeutic Community Modality Program
(TCMP) to manage and modify behaviors of PDL with the goal of
positively changing their thinking and behavior through structured
group processes.

4. How does therapeutic modalities look like?

 The operation of the community itself is the task of the residents, working
under staff supervision. Work assignments, called “job functions” are
arranged in a hierarchy, according to seniority, individual progress and
productivity. These include conducting all house services, such as
cooking, cleaning, kitchen service, minor repair, serving as apprentices
and running all departments, conducting meetings and peer encounter
groups.

 The TC operates In a similar fashion to a functional family with a

hierarchical structure of older and younger members. Each member has a
defined role and responsibilities for sustaining the proper functioning of the
TC. There are sets of rules and community norms that members upon
entry commit to live by and uphold.
5. What are the salient features of therapeutic modalities?
 The primary “therapist” and teacher is the community itself, consisting of
peers and staff, who, as role models of successful personal change, serve
as guides in the recovery process.
 TC adheres to precepts of right living: Truth/honesty; Here and now;
Personal responsibility for destiny; Social responsibility (brother’s keeper);
Moral Code; Inner person is “good” but behavior can be “bad”; Change is
the only certainty; Work ethics; Self-reliance; Psychological converges
with philosophical (e.g. guilt kills)
 It believes that TC is a place where: One can change – unfold; the group
can foster change; individuals must take responsibility; structures must
accommodate this; Act as if – go through the motion.

6. Give the 5 distinct categories that help to promote personal growth.

 Relational/Behavior Management

 Affective/Emotional/Psychological

 Cognitive/Intellectual

 Spiritual
 Psychomotor/Vocational-Survival Skills

Kapalong College of Agriculture, Sciences and Technology

In Fulfillment of the Requirements

of the course

CA103 THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES

Submitted to:

CO1 VICENTE B. BANCIL III., RCrim

Instructor

Submitted by:

GINNIE FE B. REBUTA

August 20, 2023