Innovation in Social Policy – the Case of the Therapeutic Community
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Social Policy
- Vol. 5 (3) , 265-279
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s004727940000475x
Abstract
Students of social policy have studied in some depth the fate of new ideas when they came close to inclusion in new policies, and especially new legislation. Less attention has been paid to the process whereby new ideas are generated, and the impact of advocacy on the future of simultaneous but independent innovation. Here, the therapeutic community, developed during the last war in response to largely neurotic difficulties in military personnel, is examined as a case study of innovation, and of the fate of innovation as a result of official support, and enthusiastic proselytization by committed practitioners.Keywords
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