The results of this study support the conclusion that a comprehensive psychosocial program is effective in helping chronic mentally ill individuals achieve a higher level of functioning. Its effectiveness was particularly apparent on the more objective measures of recidivism and social adjustment. The significant improvement in demonalization self-reports, which parallebed improvements in SAM scores, also supports the program's effectiveness. Future research into client functioning in community-based treatment programs should use a more comprehensive social adjustment measure that would include other dimensions in addition to indepen- dent living and vocational status. Such an instrument would provide a more sensitive gauge of social adjustment than the one used in this study. Measuring interpemsonal skills, as well as family and social relationships, might also reflect more subtle functional improvements in a chronically ill popula- tion. Finally, it is hoped that future research will provide a greater op- portunity to make much-needed comparisons of outcomes across programs and client samples.