Normalization and community integration of adults with severe mental handicap relocated to group homes

摘要

This paper explores the negative factors which contribute tomicro-institutionalizationof people with severe mental handicap relocated from hospital and family settings to community group homes.Micro-institutionalizationis 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.