This demonstration classroom offers direct therapeutic and academic service to 10 emotionally disordered adolescents, opportunities for observation, participation, and training to teachers of the community. The foci are accurate observation, use of contingencies, the method of approximations, and discrimination training. The impact is upon…

The planning of any service within the Community Mental Health Center will only be as effective as the amount of consideration which has also been given to understanding the catchment area, administration, continuity of care, and the areas of staffing and funding. Basic principles and guidelines are described for each of the five essential…

Survey results indicate psychologists' concern in areas of consultation, competence, confidentiality, and role conflict between lay and professional people. Offers suggestions for early ethics education in professional training programs. (CJ)

This paper focuses on the catchment area, administration, continuity of care, staffing and funding of community mental health centers. A companion paper explores the area of planning for services. (Author)

Discusses the paraprofessional in the New York area. Findings from the study raise questions not only about the role and training of paraprofessionals but of professionals in community mental health. (Author/EK)

The major difficulty facing community mental centers is uncertain financial support making it difficult to acquire and hold the necessary staff. These centers will achieve neither stability nor their true potential until this nation devises a universal system of prepaid medical care. Presented at World Mental Health Assembly in Washington, D.C.,…

In his efforts to obtain community commitment, the mental health professional must be aware that idiosyncratic expectancies of what the center will accomplish are held by the sponsoring agencies. (Author)

This report analyzes the communication between two social agencies, a state hospital and a community mental health center, as they attempted to develop working ties through a liaison social worker. The program did not prove completely effective; this report presents a practical and theoretical analysis of what happened. (Author)

Describes Maryland program in which senior psychiatric residents work one day a week for a year as consultants to health departments, in effort to prepare them more adequately for work in the community. (CJ)

Reviews dilemmas confronting Comprehensive Community Mental Health movement, documents existent paradigms on various campuses with special reference to program at University of Florida. Outlines campus utilization of College Community Model for training of psychiatric resident. (Author/CJ)

Discusses need to adapt urban models to communities of low population density, particularly in operational areas of personnel selection, program development, community-staff relationship and program content. (CJ)