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This paper explores the negative factors which contribute tomicro-institutionalization of people with severe mental handicap relocated from hospital and family settings to community group homes.Micro-institutionalization is defined and explained by reference to a research investigation of 12 group homes in the private and public sectors. An expanded example from a private sector group home to which 12 long-term institutionalized adults were relocated from a psychiatric hospital, and obtained paid unskilled employment in the local community, provides a suggested antidote.
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Sinson, J.C. Normalization and community integration of adults with severe mental handicap relocated to group homes. J Dev Phys Disabil 6, 255–270 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02578414
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02578414