Extensions LLC Curriculum Development & Training

click for enlargement	The Orientation Notebook Designed to welcome new members into the TC. Can be modified with specific pages for the individual TC--philosophy, greetings from staff, successful graduates.	click for enlargement	Understanding Violence Victims of violence, witnesses; perpetration of violence; violence in the family; violence on the street; domestic violence; undoing the violent cathexis. How violence and hatred can become self-perpetuating
click for enlargement	Origins of Restorative Paradigms Gives the history of the sobriety movement and introduces participants to philosophy and practice of the Oxford Group, A.A., TCs, their similarities and differences.	click for enlargement	Concert “Class on Conditioned Response Retraining.” Understanding and combating relapse to drugs, crime, violence, and other self-destructive and negative behaviors. This curriculum was developed over a two year period using focus groups of addicts who had chronically relapsed in a variety of treatment settings and uses exercises developed by the focus groups.
click for enlargement	Basic Assumptions of a Therapeutic Community (3 volumes). Topics include TC “basics”; role modeling; structure and accountability; jobs and roles; family dynamics; ceremonies and rituals.	click for enlargement	Prejudice The shadow belongs to the light as evil belongs to the good, and vice versa
click for enlargement	Beginnings An in depth workbook on childhood and adolescence and how “beginnings” can shape adult behaviors. An exposition of Alice Miller’s work for substance abusers and their families, and work on “antidote” messages to counteract	click for enlargement	Emergence
click for enlargement	From Number to Name Finding Dignity in Community	click for enlargement	Resistance, Resentment, Rationalization, Reaction & Perseverance

Many additional volumes are in preparation from 20 years of Ms. Arbiter’s work. Additional volumes: The TC as a School for Moral Development; Resentment, Resistance, Rationalization, Perseverance; TC Tools for the Practitioner; and many more.

Additionally, Ms. Arbiter is preparing training videotapes showing “best practices” in implementing TCs for women, for women with children, for adolescents, and for adults. Specific tapes with deal with sexual abuse and with violence. Curriculum comes illustrated with drawings and photographs, with written and oral exercises, with words of encouragement and hope from other recovering people, and their personal stories. It is designed for men and women with chronic histories of substance abuse, victimization, violence, incarceration, and relapse. A extensive staff/instructor guide comes with the curriculum give step-by-step instruction on how it should be delivered, how it should be integrated into the TC, and with extensive recommendations for videotapes to be used in conjunction with the curriculum.