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community
1. 
a. the people living in one locality
b. the locality in which they live
c. (as modifier): community spirit
2. a group of nations having certain interests in common
3. (in Wales since 1974 and Scotland since 1975) the smallest unit of local government; a subdivision of a district
4. Ecology a group of interdependent plants and animals inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other through food and other relationships

community [kə′myü·nə·dē]
(ecology)
Aggregation of organisms characterized by a distinctive combination of two or more ecologically related species; an example is a deciduous forest. Also known as ecological community.


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The authors also explain concepts like therapeutic community, social learning theory, and psychiatric rehabilitation, as well as the effect of the development of psychotropic drugs and psychopharmacology.
ISBN 1-894934-23-7 The therapeutic community treatment model: overview and analysis of key themes and issues.
O'Brien travels extensively, preaching the gospel that a therapeutic community, not prison, is the best way to treat drug addiction.
 
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