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The Foster Community: A Partnership in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

ALI KESKINER, MARILYN J. ZALCMAN, EMILY H. RUPPERT, and GEORGE A. ULETTAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 129, Number 3

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.3.283

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While halfway house and foster care programs have returned many chronic mental patients from the state hospital to the community, a number of problems including the patients' lack of acceptance by community residents and the perpetuation of chronicity have remained. Missouri's Foster Community Project has attacked such problems by instituting foster care programs in two rural towns that involve collaboration between state hospital staff and community residents. Initial results, including rehabilitative aspects, appear promising.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 129 • Number 3 • September 1972

Pages: 283 - 288

PubMed: 5053706

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Published in print: September 1972

Published online: 1 April 2006

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ALI KESKINER

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MARILYN J. ZALCMAN

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EMILY H. RUPPERT

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GEORGE A. ULETT

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Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Foster Community Project, Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Missouri Institute of Psychiatry and the St. Louis State Hospital, 5400 Arsenal St., St. Louis, Mo. 63139

Research and Program Development Coordinator for the project, Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Missouri Institute of Psychiatry and the St. Louis State Hospital, 5400 Arsenal St., St. Louis, Mo. 63139

Associate Director of the project, Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Missouri Institute of Psychiatry and the St. Louis State Hospital, 5400 Arsenal St., St. Louis, Mo. 63139

Professor and Chairman, Missouri Institute of Psychiatry, and Director, Missouri Division of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Missouri Institute of Psychiatry and the St. Louis State Hospital, 5400 Arsenal St., St. Louis, Mo. 63139

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