Community acceptance of the mentally ill in foster family care.
Community acceptance has been described as essential to the successful placement of the mentally ill in the community. The study reported here examined acceptance of mental patients living in family care homes and found that residents were well accepted by neighbors and by others in the community, albeit on a superficial level, and that acceptance could be predicted by variables relating to the residents' social network.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012919:Social Behavior; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric