This curriculum guide is designed for use in adult basic education (ABE) programs serving psychiatrically ill adult students. Covered in the individual units are the following topics: personal hygiene and grooming, nutrition and health, money and money management, transportation and safety, government and law, values clarification, and assertiveness training. Each unit contains a series of lessons, each of which includes some or all of the following: a short-term goal, an objective, a list of materials, a teaching procedure, additional activities, comments, one or more information sheets, one or more transparency masters, and one or more worksheets of suggested readings. (MN)