A special member‐staff relationship is necessary for psychiatric rehabilitation to be effective.

Special groups of persons with mental illness require individually tailored programs.

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Psychosocial rehabilitation programs have not traditionally pro vided separate, specialized programming for mentally ill older adolescents. In response to a recent Brief Report in the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal citing this gap in service delivery, the author describes the Thresholds Loren Juhl Young Adult Program in Chicago, Illinois.