Social profitableness: pathway to community acceptance of psychiatric patients.
The concept of 'social profitableness' is explicated as a crucial determinant in community acceptance of formerly hospitalized psychiatric patients. Increase emphasis upon patients' capability to provide rewards to citizens as well as to forgo costly deviant behavior is recommended.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012928:Social Desirability