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Peer reviewedDorr, Darwin; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1973
Nonprofessional mental health workers in a program for early detection and prevention of school maladaptation in children were compared to similar controls on changes in attitude and clinical response style after 12 didactic training sessions and supervised field experience. Some combination of training, experience, and supervision increased aide…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Mental Health Programs, Nonprofessional Personnel
Peer reviewedSandler, Irwin N. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
The inference is drawn from these findings that the aide group possessed more desirable attributes than the control group for the role of nonprofessional mental health worker. (Author)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Females, Health Personnel, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedTerrell, David L.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1972
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Evaluation, Group Guidance, Mental Health Programs
Neleigh, Janice R.; And Others – Community Mental Health Journal Monograph Series, 1971
The authors attempt to establish what a project is in the vocabulary of the monograph under consideration. An example of a project, the Crisis Center, serves to define the terms community project and community participation. (Author)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Involvement, Community Services, Crisis Intervention
Neleigh, Janice R.; And Others – Community Mental Health Journal Monograph Series, 1971
The authors discuss limitations of research techniques and raise questions about some of the results of a study designed to train nonprofessionals for community mental health project leadership. (BY)
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Services, Mental Health Programs, Nonprofessional Personnel
Peer reviewedAllen, Dean A. – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1973
Author discusses some areas of responsibility professionals have for and to the paraprofessionals who work in the mental health field. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Certification, Counseling Services, Helping Relationship
Neleigh, Janice R.; And Others – Community Mental Health Journal Monograph Series, 1971
Discussed is the consultation of mental health professionals with nonprofessional mental health workers for the purpose of presenting several dimensions of this process and attempting to define what the consultant should be like and what he should do to work effectively with nonprofessional consultees. (Author/BY(
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Consultants, Consultation Programs, Mental Health Programs
Download full textDemos, George D.; And Others – 1965
In this symposium, six professionals present related papers on community mental health. The first discusses the role of student personnel services in enhancing community mental health. This is followed by a report concerning the role of the college counseling center. Other papers in the symposium include discussions of: (1) the role of the student…
Descriptors: Community Role, Conferences, Mental Health Programs, Nonprofessional Personnel
Mitchell, Lonnie E.; Terrell, David L – Quart Rev Higher Educ Negro, 1969
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Group Counseling, Mental Health Programs
Peer reviewedCowen, Emory; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
This research evaluates the effectiveness of the Primary Mental Health Project (PMHP)--a program for early detection and prevention of school maladaptation that uses nonprofessional child-aides as direct help-agents with maladapting primary graders. (HMV)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, Mental Health Programs, Nonprofessional Personnel
McWilliams, Spencer A. – Journal of School Psychology, 1970
Three appendixes, B, C, and D, to an article titled "A Process Analysis of Nonprofessional Intervention with Children," are manuals for the use of Process Activity Forms and for Referral Category Rating, including instructions and examples of both and Derivation of Aide Characteristic Factor Scores. (LH)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Guides, Handicapped Children, Interaction Process Analysis
Neleigh, Janice R.; And Others – Community Mental Health Journal Monograph Series, 1971
Criteria for the selection of nonprofessionals for community mental health services are discussed. (BY)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Community Leaders, Mental Health Programs, Nonprofessional Personnel
Denner, Bruce – 1974
This speech discusses client advocacy, a paraprofessional service offered in many community mental health centers to help bridge the gap between therapist and client. While having an advocate on the mental health team is an attractive idea, these client advocates are quite susceptible to "corruption." The author discusses two major causes of this…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Change Agents, Mental Health Programs, Nonprofessional Personnel
Peer reviewedCowen, Emory L.; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1971
This paper considers differential patterns of program utilization and the overall potential of the helping model for bringing needed services to otherwise unreached, maladapting school children. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Labor Needs, Labor Utilization, Mental Health Programs
Peer reviewedMcCarthy, Barry W.; Berman, Alan L. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1971
In this article we describe an attempt to meet a university community's needs for emergency mental health services through the establishment of a student operated telephone emergency service. The service provides an interesting model for use of nonprofessionals in mental health services, in which the professional functions primarily as a trainer…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Guidance Centers, Mental Health Clinics, Mental Health Programs
