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Housing For The Chronically Mentally Disabled: Part I—Conceptual Framework And Social Context

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 1987

Abstract

This paper reviews research concerned with community housing programs for the chronically mentally disabled (CMD). In the first section, the ecological perspective is presented as a conceptual framework for the study of housing for the CMD. Several key concepts, such as the least restrictive environment, normalization, and integration, are tied into the ecological perspective. In the second section, literature on three dimensions of the social context of housing for the CMD is reviewed: (a) the geo-social environment: (b) responses from informal social systems; and (c) the planning, policy, and service delivery system. This literature is summarized within the framework of the ecological perspective, and the paper concludes with directions for further research and action.

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Le présent article fait la recension de la recherche concernant l'habitation pour les personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux chroniques. Dans la premiére partie, on présente la perspective écologique comme cadrre conceptuel pour étudier cette réalité. On relie à cette perspective plusieurs concepts clés comme l'environnement le moins restrictif, la normalisation, et l'intégration. Dans la seconde partie, on recense les écrits concernant trois dimensions du contexte social de l'habitation pour les personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux chroniques: (a) l'environnement géo-social; (b) les réponses des systémes sociaux informels; (c) la planification, les politiques, et le systéme de distribution des services. On résume ces écrits dans le cadre d'une perspective écologique et on conclut avec des orientations pour les recherches à venir et pour l'action.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 6Number 2September 1987
Pages: 65 - 78

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Version of record online: 29 April 2009

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G. Brent Hall
University of Waterloo
Geoffrey Nelson
Wilfrid Laurier University
Heather Smith Fowler
Wilfrid Laurier University

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