Who comes into therapeutic communities? A description of the characteristics of a sequential sample of client members admitted to 17 therapeutic communities

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This paper describes characteristics of 313 client members of 17 therapeutic communities (TCs) in England and Scotland. These data were collected in a research project evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutic communities in treating people with personality disorders. Everyone admitted to these communities between 2 April 2001 and 30 September 2002 was invited to complete a set of questionnaires. We report their scores on a measure of personality difficulties (PDQ4+) and on two measures of state distress (CORE-OM and Brief Symptom Inventory) to provide a description of members willing to participate in the study. This dataset complements information from the same measures reported previously for everyone who was in these therapeutic communities on 1 April 2001 (Lees, Evans & Manning, 2005) giving a snapshot of the composition of the communities on that day; this sample gives a picture of the new arrivals as they arrived subsequently. One of the significant findings of this study

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