What Exactly Is a Therapeutic Community?

Question by steel9maiden: What exactly is a therapeutic community?
Could you go into some detail please; the stuff that I found on Google gave one-sentence answers and were not very enlightening.

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Answer by soyabeanlover
support group ? ? Not sure myself :p

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