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Deinstitutionalization and Community Adjustment of Mentally Retarded People

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Seldom, if ever, has one decade produced the enormous changes in public policy toward America's mentally retarded citizens as was witnessed in th 1970's. These changes, promoted by massive federal, state and local expenditures, have permeated nearly every aspect of the lives of mentally retarded people, but have been particularly dramatic in the area of residential services.

Within the residential services system, the 1970's can best be characterized as the decade of deinstitutionalization. The 1980's promise continued effort in this direction, but also will be a time when much more effort is expended in the evaluation and modification of the ever expanding system of residential services.

This volume was developed to aid in this process of evaluation. In it many of the most active researchers of the deinstitutionalization and community adjustment examines a wide range of topics relating to the extra-institutional life of styles of mentally retarded people, programs for enhancing the opportunities for successful transitions to community life, approaches and issues in developing more systematic and valid methods of studying the outcomes of public policies and individual programs, and problems facing residential services providers in maintaining the momentum of the deinstitutionalization movement.
--- from book's dustjacket