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Rogerson, Robert W. K. C.; Spence, Philip H. – 1969
Designed for the architect and student, the text concerns the health of the disabled as seen through the eyes of the architect. The total environment of the handicapped is the focal point of the approach. It begins with schools; then looks at medical treatment and rehabilitation as dealt with in hospitals, special rehabilitation centers, and…
Descriptors: Architects, Architecture, Building Design, Disabilities
Download full textGoveia, Leonard H.; Tutko, Thomas A. – 1969
A research project was designed to compare the therapeutic effectiveness of treatment in a state hospital with treatment in a supportive, residential halfway-house facility involving patients in the acute initial stages of a psychiatric episode. Psychological tests were administered to randomly assigned patients at admission to the two facilities,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Emotional Disturbances, Experimental Psychology, Psychiatric Hospitals
Peck, David – 1973
This research deals primarily with an overview of drug use and/or abuse, with specific discussion of the halfway house concept of treatment, including definition, historical framework, rationales, and inherent problems of halfway houses as modalities of treatment (i.e., economics of the treatment modality). Other special treatment modalities are…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Drug Addiction, Milieu Therapy, Program Descriptions
Cappello, Joseph F. – 1974
Reported are the activities of the Inter Agency Committee on the Education and Vocational Rehabilitation of the Handicapped in New Jersey for the year 1974-1975. The purposes and functions of the committee are listed, and the Inter Agency conference held in October, 1974 is described. Included are copies of the invitation and the program,…
Descriptors: Agencies, Conference Reports, Directories, Disabilities
Peer reviewedWilgus, Anthony; Epstein, Irwin – Social Work, 1978
Two community-based treatment programs for troubled adolescents were located within the same city. Both utilized the group home concept. One program survived, the other did not. This article describes the organizational dynamics of their survival and demise. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Group Experience, Organization
Carlson, Eric W.; Seiter, Richard P. – Offender Rehabilitation, 1977
Presents the historical development of halfway houses as a transitional residence for offenders being released from an institution plus current criticisms and issues regarding these programs. (Author/HMU)
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminals, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedJohnson, James S.; Bonta, James – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1985
Attempted to identify factors within a halfway house program that may influence its effectiveness by examining the relationship between staff attributes and the value placed upon different programs. Through a correlational analysis, various personality and attitudinal characteristics of the staff were found related to program ratings. (Author/NRB)
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Group Homes
Peer reviewedMand, Charles L.; Green, Leonard – Journal of School Health, 1973
Description of a summer program of an adolescent unit from a multidisciplinary treatment center for emotionally disturbed and organically handicapped children. The general purpose of the summer was to help these young people catch-up'' in social, emotional, academic and recreational skills. The change in physical surroundings did permit greater…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Services, Exceptional Persons, Rehabilitation
Peer reviewedToigo, Romolo; Kaminstein, Philip – Adolescence, 1972
A Federally sponsored storefront drug information center is described which is located adjacent to the business district of a medium-size industrial city in the Northeast. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Attitudes, Community Centers, Drug Abuse
Carol, Kenneth E. – American Vocational Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Counseling, Educational Therapy, Human Services, Physical Disabilities
Wilson, Edouard L. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1972
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Services, Multiple Disabilities, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedPerkins, I. H. – Adolescence, 1972
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Therapy, Hospitals
Petersen, Eugene W. – J Rehabil Deaf, 1970
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Exceptional Child Services, Hearing Impairments
Graebner, Oliver F. – Training Sch Bull, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Services, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSundeen, Richard A.; Fiske, Shirley – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1982
Describes issues related to resistance to community based care facilities. Information was gathered through interviews with representatives of residential treatment facilities and local and state officials. Critical variables significant in understanding community resistance and overcoming it include: (1) overconcentration; (2) client…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Programs, Delinquent Rehabilitation
