"Building Your Program" is intended to help mental health authorities, agency administrators, and program leaders think through and develop Supported Education. The first part of this booklet gives you background information about the Supported Education model. Specific information about your role in implementing and sustaining Supported Education…

This publication was developed to provide guidelines for persons conducting continuing education programs for community mental health caregivers. (This would include persons primarily involved in the delivery of health, educational, and social welfare services who also are involved in the psychosocial functioning of their clients.) Following a…

This manual presents information on three instruments designed for surveying mental health problems in schools. Part I describes the instruments, which are two questionnaires called the School Problem Area Survey--Staff, and the School Problem Area Survey--Students, and a guide to be used in interviews, called the Demographic Information Form as…

This book provides the reader with the concepts underlying the Primary Mental Health Project (PMHP), which was developed and tested in the Rochester, New York area during the last 17 years. The book also describes emerging new roles for school mental health professionals and training methods for nonprofessional child aides. It explains how the…

The guidebook is introduced by general observations on the Scandinavian countries concerning history, social policy, medicine, mental health, and psychiatric diagnosis. Discussed individually for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are the following areas: mental health programs and statistics; mental illness programs, regional, hospital, aftercare,…

The manual, developed by psychologists at the Human Development Training Institute, describes techniques for understanding and dealing with the behavior and development of young children. The major objective of the book is to help elementary school teachers improve communication with their pupils. The manual offers conceptual tools for fostering…