Appendix II.1/2: A revised draft structure for the special issue, August 17, 2019

Prospective Therapeutic Communities Special Issue, first editorial group meeting
The Herriotts, Droitwich, 17/8/2019
[Minutes]

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5. Craig noted that expanding the boundaries of community and communication - bringing diverse groups and people into the orbit of therapeutic community, and expanding that orbit by engaging widely outside the therapeutic community circle on behalf of therapeutic community - had been at the heart of the Archive and Study Centre's work, and would be appropriate for a special issue. Contributions could be sought with that in mind.

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6. Possible Structure:

6.1 Introduction to the Special Issue. Craig and Bob.

6.2 A brief outline history of the Archive and Study Centre, with attention on each of its operational areas: Archives; Oral History; Research Library; Museum; and Information, Outreach and Support Services. Craig.

6.3 Key contributions to the field of therapeutic community. Craig.

6.3.1 Recording the history of the field.

6.3.2 Supporting researchers and research: grants, conferences, seminars, workshops, PETT and Archive Fellows.

6.3.3 Networking, Connecting and Communicating therapeutic community: websites, email discussion groups, and The Joint Newsletter

6.3.4 Case Studies as exemplars:

6.3.4.1 ATC Secretariat

6.3.4.2 Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments

6.3.4.3 Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children

6.3.4.4 The Oxford Project/Phoenix Unit [unless covered in 6.4].

6.4. "The Archive and Study Centre in Action and Effect": brief articles solicited from users and stakeholders, bearing in mind the range and breadth evoked in Number 5, some suggestions:

6.4.1 The Oxford Project and the Phoenix Unit: The role of archival support, and practical and research outcomes.  [Adult therapeutic community]

6.4.2 Henderson Hospital: A kind of Archival Weekend. Comments... on a groundbreaking residential Archive Weekend for former staff and residents of the Henderson Hospital, held and hosted by the Archive and Study Centre, with the build up to it - what made it possible in the end -, the experience and meaning of the event itself, and the subsequent follow-on. [Adult therapeutic community]

6.4.3 Engendering community, Archive Weekends, and creating a home to come (back) to: Discussion by former children of communities who brought their records to the Archive, and created an award-winning approach to them, and whose associations took on new life and grew through the association.  [Children's Communities]

6.4.4 The Early Pestalozzi Children Project: The Archive Community at work.  [Children's Communities]

6.4.5 Nothing so Practical as an Archive: Solihull Academy, a case study. 

6.4.6 Archives put to Work: The Archive of the Future Seminar, May 2019.  Description of a radical use of therapeutic community archives as cross-professional training.

6.4.7 Grounding, fostering, mentoring research. 

6.5 Commentary

6.5.1 Craig: "Archives in the World": A reflection on the meaning and purpose of archives and places of history, as illustrated by the Archive and Study Centre

6.5.2 Bob: "Community, Individuality, therapeutic community, and the future of human societies"

6.6 Documents

6.6.1 "Overview" to "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children": statement of fundamental assumptions and principles.

6.6.2 The PETT Archive and Study Centre GDPR Policy: a radical statement of practice and intent.

6.6.3 An Archive and Study Centre Bibliography (for the record)

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