Normal housing with specialized supports: A psychiatric rehabilitation approach to living in the community.

Presents a conceptual and historical overview of residential services for Ss with psychiatric disability and challenges the appropriateness and effectiveness of the "continuum of services" model. The authors propose that the goal of residential services should be to assist all people with psychiatric disabilities to choose, obtain, and maintain normal housing and that rehabilitation technology is currently available to accomplish this goal. Data indicate that despite high costs, most state mental health systems are continuing to make large scale investments in facility-based residential programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)