[Rehabilitation in a community psychiatric service facility--success and failure during a one year period].

: Rehabilitation outcome was examined within a social psychiatric model institution including several partial hospitalization programmes and various outpatient services. After a one-year period the treatment success was measured by objective criteria in 166 consecutively admitted patients, most of them diagnosed as schizophrenics. 75% showed improvements in terms of reduced institutional protection and a more independent living situation. Vocational rehabilitation was successful in 47%. There was no significant correlation between these outcome measures. A poor outcome was found in a group of patients who had received a comparatively high rate of therapeutic activities and was classified by sociodemographic variables. Consequences concerning the therapeutic approach in community mental health services and its evaluation are shown.