This study of institutional categorization reports an investigation of the practices, procedures and assumptions of psychiatric staff members when diagnosing ADHD. The main data upon which the study is based consist of transcribed audio recordings of meetings in the psychiatric clinic. Here children referred from primary schools on the suspicion…

Nicholas Long is one of the nation's foremost leaders in the field of reeducating troubled children and youth. During a career that has spanned more than 50 years, he has created and administered model psycho-educational treatment programs, authored or coauthored seven texts and more than 100 articles, and developed video series about working with…

Documented are staff training programs at the Rutland Center, a community-based mental health facility combining professional mental health and special education personnel in a cooperative program of psychoeducational service to seriously emotionally disturbed or behaviorally disordered children. The report describes the process of planning and…

There is a severe shortage of professionally trained workers in the fields of remedial reading, psychotherapy, and preventive psychological/educational preschool programs. In response to this shortage, many paraprofessional workers have entered these fields. Since 1966, the Children's Center for Educational Therapy in Venice, California, has…

Fifty students (ages 7 to 16 years) attending a children's psychiatric center's psychoeducational program were assessed for achievement levels in reading, spelling, and arithmetic on admission and for gains made during the program. Among results were that students who stayed in the program 12 months or less made significantly more gains on pooled…

The handbook is written for graduate students participating in the Wayne State University Fairlawn Center Cooperative Psycho-Educational Training Program for Teachers of the Emotionally Disturbed. The material is intended as an orientation to the scope of the total program of Fairlawn Center (Pontiac State Hospital, Child Psychiatry Division),…

Describes the rationale and techniques of a therapy program designed to keep children with behavior and learning problems in regular classrooms for part of the school day. (BRT)

In working with severely emotionally disturbed children from infancy to age 14, Rutland Center utilizes a developmental approach through which program work is matched to a child's particular state of physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development. Based on 146 objectives, the curriculum deals with behavior, communication, socialization,…

The use of paraprofessionals as tutors for retarded readers has proved successful in reducing the number of school failures. Described here is a program that uses paraprofessionals drawn from the school's neighborhood in order to involve the community in solving some of its problems. This program is a psycho-educational service in a hospital…

Assessment of 67 elementary-aged subjects with behavioral/emotional disturbances admitted to a school and day treatment program within a psychoeducational center found that 54 percent exhibited some kind of speech and/or language disorder. Implications for diagnosis and treatment are discussed. (JDD)

Discussed are current and proposed Georgia interagency programs for delivering mental health services to behaviorally disordered (emotionally disturbed-socially maladjusted) children through age 21 years by 1976. Considered in a brief overview of state programs are services (such as the Georgia Psychoeducational Center Network) for elementary and…

A pilot project to provide educational, psychological, and social services for elementary school children who are educationally retarded, emotionally disturbed, or socially maladjusted was developed to help a school system deal more effectively with disruptive or learning disabled children. An interdisciplinary approach was used and three major…