Segal Steven P, Sawyer Darwin
Mental Health and Social Welfare Research Group, School of Social Welfare, 120 Haviland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, and as an Editorial Board Member, Adult Residential Care Journal.
Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Adult Resid Care J. 1996 Fall;10(2):75-87.
This paper examines the effects of facility size on the social integration of mentally ill residents in community-based sheltered care homes. Big facilities have come to be associated with many problems (documented and otherwise) related to residential housing for mentally ill adults. However, this image of large, impersonal, and overly restrictive living environments is often not substantiated by the empirical research on sheltered care. Indeed, the present study of sheltered care homes in California finds a much more complex and varied situation. It suggests that homes of all sizes may offer many of the same opportunities for social interaction and that larger homes in some instances may possess certain advantages over smaller facilities.
本文探讨了机构规模对社区庇护性护理院精神病患者社会融合的影响。大型机构与许多与成年精神病患者居住相关的问题（有记录的和其他方面的）联系在一起。然而，这种大型、冷漠且限制过多的生活环境的形象，往往未被庇护性护理的实证研究所证实。事实上，目前对加利福尼亚州庇护性护理院的研究发现了一个更为复杂和多样的情况。这表明各种规模的护理院可能提供许多相同的社交互动机会，而且在某些情况下，大型护理院可能比小型机构具有某些优势。
