We don't think there is any more potential risk in residential treatment as in clinical treatment. Short-term residential crisis treatment programs may be a cost-effective alternative to inpatient hospitalization. They offer clients crisis psychiatric treatment, a supportive network of clinicians to facilitate life skills training, housing support, and placement into transitional living programs. Residential treatment significantly improved patients' psychosocial functioning as measured by the SOF and GAF scales. The SOF reflected a 21 percent improvement in functioning and the GAF a 28 percent improvement. It is a patient's own responsibility that he chooses the right place for treatment. chemist