THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES
Therapeutic community modality program
BJMP
Therapeutic center
Bu Cor
Therapeutic community
PPA
1. Therapeutic community modality program
• BJMP
• Resident(1990)
2. Therapeutic center
• Bu Cor
• Resident(2002)
3. Therapeutic community
• PPA
• Client
The Therapeutic Community (TC) is an environment that helps people get help while helping
others.
• It is a treatment environment: the interactions of its members are designed to be
therapeutic within the context of the norms that require for each to play the dual role of
client-therapist.
• At a given moment, one may be in a client role when receiving help or support from
others because of a problem behavior or when experiencing distress.
• At another time, the same person assumes a therapist role when assisting or supporting
another person in trouble.
Therapeutic community modality program- a self help socialize-individual treatment
• The operation of the community itself is the task of the residents, working under staff
supervision. Work assignments, called "job functions" are arranged in a hierarchy,
according to seniority individual progress and productivity. These include conducting all
house services, such as cooking, cleaning, kitchen service, minor repair, serving as
apprentices and running all departments, conducting meetings and peer encounter groups.
Therapeutic Center- a self-hep program -by immersing a drug offender in the TC environment,
he learns why he had developed his destructive habits, which led him to substance abuse. The
program modifies negative behavior and or attitudes while restoring self-confidence, and
prepares inmates for their reintegration into their families and friends as productive members of
the community. This behavioral modification program gradually reshapes or re-structures the
inmate within a family-like environment, wherein every member act as his brother's keeper.
There are 5 distinct categories of activity that help promote the change:
a) Relational/Behavior Management
b) Emotional/Psychological
c) Cognitive/Intellectual
d) Spiritual
e) Psychomotor/Vocational-Survival Skills
MODALITIES IN THE TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS IN THE PHILIPPINES
It has separate treatment systems for youth offenders and adult offenders. The custodial care
of adult offenders is handled by the following:
1. The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)under the Department of Interior
and Local Government (DILG) which has supervision over all district, city and municipal
jails and detention centers. These jails house detainees awaiting judicial disposition of
their case and offenders whose sentence range from one (1) day to three(3) years.
2. The Provincial Governments, which have supervision and control over provincial jails.
These jails house court detainees and prisoners whose prison terms range from six(6)
months and one (1) day, to three (3) years.
3. The Bureau of Corrections (BUCOR) under the Department of Justice (DOJ), which has
control over the national penitentiary and its penal farms, houses convicted offenders
with prison sentences ranging from three (3) years and one (1) day, to life imprisonment.
4. Youth offenders in the Philippines are treated differently. A youth offender is defined as
a child over nine (9) years but below eighteen (18) years of age at the time of the
commission of an offense. Under the country's laws, these youth offenders are entitled to
a suspended sentence. Instead of serving their sentence, they are rehabilitated in regional
youth rehabilitation centers, which are managed and supervised by the Department of
Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
