Harris and Lingoes' six psychopathic deviate subscales were assessed empirically for their convergent validity and for their utility to discriminate among male offenders on the two outcome measures of successful completion of sentences at a correctional halfway house and reincarceration at a one-year follow-up. Results provided varying degrees of…

Describes Fellowship House, a network of counseling, socializing, job training, transitional employment, and residential programs for the mentally ill. (Availability: Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20401) (JOW)

This study aimed to examine the implementation, adequacy, and outcomes of discharge planning. The authors carried out a prospective study of 1,426 adult patients discharged from 11 acute care hospitals in Israel. Social workers provided detailed discharge plans on each patient. Telephone interviews were conducted two weeks post-discharge. Findings…

Before designing Pittsburgh's new Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, which serves patients with severe physical and emotional problems, the architects spent days at the former center and used wheelchairs to get around their office in order to keep the handicapped concept uppermost in the design. (Author/MLF)

The directory presents information on some of the rehabilitation information services worldwide. National developments in the following countries are described: Belgium (the National Fund for Social Classification of the Handicapped, the Belgian Red Cross); Canada (the Canadian Rehabilitation Council for the Disabled); Denmark (Inspectorate of…

Results of this study suggest that current inservice training programs need to be reviewed and improved if better services to clients are the goal of the state rehabilitation agency and its counselors. (Author)

The three-part article on workshops for the handicapped reviews society's concern for the handicapped from an anthropological point of view, classifies three types of workshops, defines areas of concern, and explores possible solutions. (Author/KW)

Used in rehabilitation evaluation of visually handicapped persons is the theragnostic group, a relatively non-directive group interaction which not only has therapeutic effects for the participant but which also provides to the staff diagnostic information useful in interpreting the evaluee's needs and potential. (KW)

Problems related to the evaluation of rehabilitation agencies and rehabilitation education programs are reviewed. Questioned are the assumptions that even shoddy evaluation is better than nothing and that the consumer is one of the best sources of evaluation data. Corruption of data and selective or distorted reporting of results are discussed.…

The use of accreditation has been widespread among medical care providers, but accreditation is relatively new to the drug abuse treatment field. This study presents estimates of the costs of pursuing accreditation for methadone treatment sites. Data are from 102 methadone treatment sites that underwent accreditation as part of the Center for…

The group dynamics of therapeutic communities are very complex. This article describes how staff problems can negatively affect the program of a therapeutic community, and also relates the kinds of problems encountered in a therapeutic community to the problems encountered in rehabilitation programs in other settings. (Author)

The results of this study provide evidence for the feasibility of expanding rehabilitation services to meet the needs of culturally disadvantaged individuals for the variables investigated, the traditional vocational rehabilitation process appeared to be even more effective for serving the culturally disadvantaged group than the disabled group.…

The article discusses the disinstitutionalization of the mentally retarded in terms of six features of culture/transition shock: cue problems, value discrepancies, characteristic symptoms, the adjustment mechanism, the emotional core, and emergence over time. (DLS)