Self-efficacy and consumer satisfaction with housing.

During clinical recovery mental health consumers express increasing interest in assuming control over their community living arrangements. Despite recent policy initiatives toward consumer empowerment in housing services and supports, few studies have explored empowerment issues, such as self-efficacy, in relation to housing satisfaction. This study explored the extent to which specific areas of support and self-efficacy predict consumer satisfaction with housing.

Community integration through therapeutic recreation: day-treatment patients compete in a softball league.

A team of male psychiatric patients drawn from two community mental-health day-treatment centers competed in a community-based softball league. Treatment objectives were twofold: therapeutic recreation and participation in a community activity apart from a traditional psychiatric setting. Points of success, while anecdotal, seem to suggest avenues through which further efforts toward community integration may be achieved.