LESSON PLAN
LESSON PLAN
Course : B.Sc Nursing
Year : V Semester
Subject : Mental Health Nursing – I
Unit : Unit 5, Treatment modalities and therapies used in mental disorders
Topic : Therapeutic Community
Time : 1 hour
Teaching method : Lecture cum Discussion
A.V Aids : LCD
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
At the end of the class students are able to define therapeutic community, state its objectives, elements, components, advantages and
disadvantages.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Students are able to get introduced to the topic
Students will be able to define therapeutic community
Students are able to enlist objectives of therapeutic community
Students are able to explain elements of therapeutic community
Students are able to explain components of therapeutic community
Students are able to state advantages and disadvantages of therapeutic community
Students are able to brief nurses role in therapeutic community
Time Specific objectives Content Teacher’s Learner’s A.V Aids Evaluation
activity activity
THERAPEUTIC
COMMUNITY
The students are able to INTRODUCTION
2 minutes get introduced to the The concept of therapeutic Who introduced the
topic. community was first Introducing Getting introduced LCD concept of
developed by Maxwell Jones therapeutic
in 1953. community
This concept was first
published in his book “Social
psychiatry”. Later when it was
published in U S name was
changed as “Therapeutic
community”.
DEFINITION
A therapy in which patient’s What is used to
The students are able to social environment would be Defining Listening LCD give therapeutic
3 minutes define therapeutic used to provide therapeutic experience for
community experience for the patient by patients
involving him as an active
participant in his own care and
the daily problems of his
community.
OBJECTIVES
a. To use patient’s social
environment to provide a
10 minutes The students are able to therapeutic experience for Lecture cum Listening cum LCD What are the roles a
enlist objectives of him. Discussion Participation in patient in
therapeutic community. b. To enable the patient to be discussion therapeutic
an active participant in his community
own care and become
involved in daily activities
of his community.
c. To help patients solve
problems, plan activities
and develop the necessary
rules and regulations for
the community.
d. To increase their
independence and gain
control over many of their
own personal activities.
e. To enable the patients
