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)

Report derived from the author's doctoral dissertation, Catholic University of America, and from work on Project No. M-MHSC-53c, National Institute of Mental Health.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (Chicago, 1968).

This paper provides a description of an online Rorschach interpretation algorithm for the Exner comprehensive system, as well as a study conducted to evaluate the validity of the online interpretive algorithm. The user, systems, and equipment specifications for the algorithm are explained, and the potential advantages of its use to enhance…

This guide describes program components and models of social adjustment services for refugees. Various service components of education and training programs, short term and ongoing services, and mental health services are identified. In addition, a range of existing social adjustment program approaches that reflect successful programs in the…

A therapeutic technique for dealing with a chronic caller to a suicide prevention center was tested. The two objectives to such a technique were to reduce the frequency of calls made by chronic callers to the suicide prevention service, and to persuade callers to be more specific when discussing their problem. To accomplish these objectives, a…

Community Based Consultation, a consultation/education model appropriate for use in CMHC's and mental health departments is described. The model is being implemented by a Community Services Team of a rural mental health department. Appropriate strategies, a conceptualization of the community along power dimensions, a decision-making structure for…

This paper describes a program of free, short-term, individual bereavement counseling for survivors of sudden death in Marin County, California. Co-sponsors are Marin Suicide Prevention Center and Marin County Coroner's Office. Most survivors are initially referred to the program by the coroner at the time of certifying cause of death, others are…

This five-year study gathered data on 174 prospective teachers through personality tests, self-evaluation forms, and sound films of student teaching behavior, and examined the effects of three kinds of psychological feedback on teacher preparation, personality, and behavior. Subjects were divided into four groups--one for control and three for…

Participants at the 1977 Conference on Institution Library Services reassessed a ten-year old program to develop libraries in Ohio's institutions, reinforced the concept that library services are important to institutions, and elicited input for future development. This report presents the texts of the following conference papers: (1) a report on…

A demonstration project for very disturbed adolescents from Metropolitan Toronto involving 13 agencies is described. The system is composed of four interrelated services in each geographical area and would allow for free movement of adolescents from one phase to another in accordance with their needs and abilities, including back-tracking as well…

Delivery of health care services is under close national scrutiny -- and rightly so! This report examines one facet of those traditional services, inpatient specialty consultation, in the form of 100 consecutive initial requests for child psychiatry consultative assistance in the clinical setting of a large children's hospital. Analysis of the…

Research foundations and problems for counseling in the community are discussed. Research implications are outlined around Sarason's three challenges to community health; (1) extending therapeutic outreach, (2) studying those situations, settings, or forces in the community that set the stage for problems; and (3) efforts toward prevention.…

This annotated bibliography presents 86 entries classified into the following sections: (1) Regional Conferences, (National Institute of Mental Health planning conferences on inservice training held in 1963), (2) Multidiscipline, Multilevel Training, (3) Professionals (administrators, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses), (4) Child…

This report discusses consultation as a process of assessment, defining, implementing, and evaluating. Within the context of institutional change, these steps are useful in viewing the policies and procedures that make up the institution's functional environment, the institution's social environment, and the institution's physical environment.…