Abstract
After three years of operation, a model group home run along communal lines has demonstrated its value for the social rehabilitation of discharged patients. The home-like atmosphere, in which members support each other, appears to help certain discharged patients function independently in the community. However, it also appears that certain people who function well while in the semi-protected framework of the home may not do well when they move out on their own. Therefore, it may be a more realistic program goal to develop a network of non-transitional community homes rather than one half-way house through which patients pass on their way to independent living quarters. The data also suggest that neither brief re-hospitalizations, after which the resident returns to the group home, nor leaving the home to live again with family, are necessarily evidence of failure.
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