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Work and Social Support: A Comparison of Consumers Who Have Achieved Stability in ACT and Clubhouse Programs

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A current debate in the field is whetherconsumers, who have achieved stability in AssertiveCommunity Treatment programs, can be transferred to lessintensive services. To bring some data to bear on this question, this study compared consumers andmembers, who have achieved stability, in either anAssertive Community Treatment (ACT) or a clubhouseprogram, on domains of vocational activity, socialrelationships/loneliness and community integration. The 51 stableclients from the two programs who were interviewed,reported similar vocational activity, similarexperiences with social relationships and socialnetworks, and similar community integration. Clients in bothgroups were less lonely than previously reported in theliterature. Study results indicate, that for thoseclients who have achieved stability, there aresufficient similarities between consumers in the twoprograms, to suggest a potential for movement from moreto less intensive programs with less disruption thanpreviously assumed possible.

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Stein, L.I., Barry, K.L., Dien, G.V. et al. Work and Social Support: A Comparison of Consumers Who Have Achieved Stability in ACT and Clubhouse Programs. Community Ment Health J 35, 193–204 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018780916794

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