Researchers have asked clinicians what kind of housing, for example, their clients need, and been told that congregate, segregated housing was the best setting. At the same time, researchers have asked clients directly what kind of housing they want, and been told that people would choose, (if given the choice) to live in their own homes or apartments alone or with one other person they had chosen to live with. At the end of a year, the researchers found, the clients who got the type of housing they wanted were doing better than the clients who got the housing that was thought to be clinically appropriate. Helping people reach their goals is, among other things, therapeutic.