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It would appear that social-environmental circumstances surrounding the place of residence of patients discharged to sheltered care facilities are crucial to their adjustment to, and involvement in, community life. Census tract indicators of environmental circumstance were found to be strongly related to an individual's level of social integration. Mental health workers should carefully consider the immediate environmental situation in accepting a residence for the placement of discharged psychatric clients. Just as emphasis has been placed on the “therapeutic milieu” within the sheltered care facility, attention should be similarly directed to the attributes of the community immediately surrounding potential residential facilities.
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This study was supported in part by the Psychiatric Research Unit, Department of Public Health, Province of Saskatchewan, the California State Department of Health, and the National Institute of Mental Health, Grant No. MH25417-03
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Trute, B., Segal, S.P. Census tract predictors and the social integration of sheltered care residents. Soc Psychiatry 11, 153–161 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00578103
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