"One Foot in Eden" reports on a comparative sociological study of eight different therapeutic communities. They include a residential Rudolf Steiner school for mentally handicapped children and a "concept house" for the treatment of addicts. This book should be of interest to practitioners in therapeutic communities, medical sociology and psychiatry.

One Foot in Eden: A Sociological Study of the Range of Therapeutic Community Practice (International Library of Group Psychotherapy and Group Proces)

Politics & Social Sciences

Bloor, Michael

McKeganey, Neil

Fonkert, Dick

Social Sciences

Routledge

Keywords in Qualitative Methods: A Vocabulary of Research Concepts

This is an accessible and practical guide to qualitative techniques for students and researchers across the social and health sciences. An essential companion for any student, the book provides a wide-ranging coverage of qualitative methods complemented by extended illustration from the array of academic disciplines in which qualitative research is found and employed. Written in a lively and reader-friendly style, this is an essential study guide for students and first-time researchers. It is a primary source of reference for advanced study, a necessary supplement to established textbooks, and a comprehensive reference guide to the specialized language of qualitative research across the social sciences.

Wood, Fiona

Sage Publications Ltd.

This is an accessible and practical guide to qualitative techniques for students and researchers across the social and health sciences. An essential companion for any student, the book provides a wide-ranging coverage of qualitative methods complemented by extended illustration from the array of academic disciplines in which qualitative research is found and employed. Written in a lively and reader-friendly style, this is an essential study guide for students and first-time researchers. It is a primary source of reference for advanced study, a necessary supplement to established textbooks, and a comprehensive reference guide to the specialized language of qualitative research across the social sciences.

Focus Groups in Social Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)

There is an increasing divergence of focus group practice between social researchers and commercial market researchers. This book addresses the key issues and practical requirements of the social researcher, namely: the kinds of social research issues for which focus groups are most and least suitable; optimum group size and composition; and the designing of focusing exercises, facilitation and appropriate analysis.  The authors use examples, drawn from their own focus groups research experience, and provide exercises for further study. They address the three main components of composition, conduct and analysis in focus group research and also acknowledge the increasing impact the Internet has had on social research by cover

STEWART, KATE

Frankland, Jane

Thomas, Michelle

There is an increasing divergence of focus group practice between social researchers and commercial market researchers. This book addresses the key issues and practical requirements of the social researcher, namely: the kinds of social research issues for which focus groups are most and least suitable; optimum group size and composition; and the designing of focusing exercises, facilitation and appropriate analysis. The authors use examples, drawn from their own focus groups research experience, and provide exercises for further study. They address the three main components of composition, conduct and analysis in focus group research and also acknowledge the increasing impact the Internet has had on social research by cover

The Sociology of HIV Transmission

In this broad-ranging book, Michael Bloor gives an overview of our current understanding of the social conditions and contexts of HIV transmission. The author examines the social epidemiology of HIV transmission in its different manifestations in the developing world and in the West, looking at heterosexual and homosexual transmission, sex tourism and prostitution, injecting drug users, haemophiliacs and transfusion recipients. He goes on to look at reports of sociological studies of risk behaviour among men who have sex with men, among heterosexual and bisexual men and women, and among those who share syringes. Drawing on his own research, Michael Bloor presents a critical examination of the different theoretical models of

In this broad-ranging book, Michael Bloor gives an overview of our current understanding of the social conditions and contexts of HIV transmission.  The author examines the social epidemiology of HIV transmission in its different manifestations in the developing world and in the West, looking at heterosexual and homosexual transmission, sex tourism and prostitution, injecting drug users, haemophiliacs and transfusion recipients. He goes on to look at reports of sociological studies of risk behaviour among men who have sex with men, among heterosexual and bisexual men and women, and among those who share syringes. Drawing on his own research, Michael Bloor presents a critical examination of the different theoretical models of

One Foot in Eden (Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

A comparative sociological account of eight different therapeutic communities, One Foot in Eden, originally published in 1988, was the first study in this area to compare observational material from such a large number of settings. The communities chosen represent the wide variety of therapeutic community practice at the time: a residential Rudolf Steiner school for mentally handicapped children; two contrasting residential psychiatric units; a community for the treatment of addiction; a communally organised community for mentally handicapped and disturbed young people; a psychiatric day hospital; and two contrasting halfway houses for disturbed adolescents. All these places are recognised therapeutic communities seeking to mobilise the social life of the community as an instrument of therapy, yet, as this study shows, they follow different (and sometimes antithetical) treatment practices. The book also directs new light on other areas, of particular concern to sociologists, such as the general properties of therapeutic work and the socialisation process as it is experienced by new community residents. It will be of special interest to therapeutic community staff, to sociologists of medicine and occupations, and to others involved in the care of disturbed and handicapped people.

Selected Writings in Medical Sociological Research (Routledge Revivals)

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One Foot in Eden: A Sociological Study of the Range of Therapeutic Community Practice (International Library of Group Psychotherapy and Group Proces)

Keywords in Qualitative Methods: A Vocabulary of Research Concepts

Keywords in Qualitative Methods: A Vocabulary of Research Concepts

Focus Groups in Social Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)

Focus Groups in Social Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)

The Sociology of HIV Transmission

The Sociology of HIV Transmission

One Foot in Eden (Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry)

One Foot in Eden (Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry)

Selected Writings in Medical Sociological Research (Routledge Revivals)