Youth who have been adjudicated face the unique challenge of transitioning from facility to community while also transitioning from adolescence to adulthood. Although many juvenile justice facilities seek to provide effective transition and aftercare services, researchers have demonstrated high levels of recidivism among formerly incarcerated…

In Maine, where black people are a mere 1.6% of the population today, there once existed a small mixed-race community called Malaga Island. In 1912, the state forcibly evicted Malaga's residents and committed eight to the Maine School for the Feebleminded. The state and the press branded this cruel tragedy a triumph and their interpretation was…

This bibliography lists toys and games designed to aid children and young adults to master skills in the following areas: (1) communication; (2) concepts; (3) life; (4) math readiness; (5) motor; (6) reading; (7) music therapy; (8) sensory; and (9) social studies. Ten to thirty entries are described in each category, and a list of publishers is…

This report was written for the Wisconsin State Legislative Council's Special Committee on Mental Health Issues. It summarizes selected studies of mental health issues, focusing on the most recent studies conducted in Wisconsin and studies conducted elsewhere that examined issues relevant to the work of the committee. For each study reviewed,…

Since the advent of institutional care in the nineteenth century, there has been extensive discussion concerning the relative merits and constraints inherent in such service provision. In the twentieth century, the trend toward institutionalization began to be reversed. Patients or clients were released or returned to communities and community…

Summarizes research concerning the disengagement theory of aging and examines awareness of finitude. Interviews with residents of old-age institutions revealed awareness of finitude to be a better predictor of disengagement than chronological age. Future research should examine this predictor in noninstitutional settings. (Author)

The resource manual developed by the Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER) in Minneapolis is intended to provide trainers of parents of handicapped children with information and resources concerning the prevention and treatment of child abuse. The PACER program has developed a program using child-sized puppets to teach…

Both clinicians and patients can easily become entangled in the "rights versus rites" debate--that is, the effort to strike a balance between mandated "right to treatment" and emerging "right to refuse treatment." This paper examines legal and psychiatric precedent and practice in those areas and suggests a practical, prudent and palatable middle…

The topic of alternatives to incarceration or community-based corrections is presented in a selected list of resources containing approximately 350 items. Included are English language books, articles, government documents, reports, dissertations and conference proceedings. Textbooks have not been included. The scope is international and currency…

Provides background reading and sources of current practice/ideas relative to instituting programs for older adults. Annotations of selected materials, published since 1972, are grouped under five headings: "Background Materials,""Model Programs,""Information and Referral Services,""Audiovisual Programs," and "Services to the Handicapped and the…

This article reviews correctional treatment at the Wisconsin State Reformatory where a program of behavior training was instituted. An explanation of the psychological principles upon which the program is based and an example of the model program for problem drinkers is offered. Feedback and future innovations are also added. (MML)

This bibliography of materials on the elderly as volunteers and volunteer work with the elderly was compiled from six databases: Sociological Abstracts, PsycInfo, Magazine Index, Health Planning and Administration, ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), and the GPO (Government Printing Office) Monthly Catalog (government publications).…

This topical search includes 30 of the most representative citations on the subject of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and youth selected from the National Institute of Justice/NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) database. Topics covered in this package include education programs for in-school youth, policies and…

This bibliography reviews approximately 70 reference materials on criminal justice. Entries are presented in eight categories--dictionaries, indexes and abstracts, professional position papers, working conditions and unions, law and the police, crime, prisons and prisoners, and victimization. Types of publications included under the subject…

From the surge of recent litigation it appears that the civil rights movement has at last discovered another oppressed minority. Traditionally, society and the courts have ignored mental patients during their institutional confinement. Particular attention has been paid to the newly emerging concepts of rights to treatment, least restrictive…