In order to provide information for those beginning a center, 253 centers were surveyed regarding five major aspects of crisis center operations: screening procedures for telephone listener-counselor applicants, training procedures, services offered, types of calls received, and financing. Resources for further information and for better…

The prospects for mental health in the schools are fraught with great difficulties, the child guidance or youth guidance team should be increased rather than diminished, and the team should include experts in the field of drug education, addiction and abuse. Presented at American School Health Association, San Diego, California, October 1972.…

After discharge from the hospital, many mental patients go back to the kind of environment that contributed to their breakdown. In the belief that new options should be available to mental patients when discharged, a hospital in New York City developed--with marked success--a plan for group living. (Author)

The school appears to be an ideal place for applying a preventive approach to mental health. The emerging role of the school counselor-consultant offers some hope for system-wide impact. Coordination with community mental health services would further strengthen the consultant's role in the school. (Author)

The qualitative experience with one year's operation of this program is described and the psychiatric diagnostic scheme used is outlined in an appendix and table. (Authors/CB)

How a program in family life fits in with the sponsoring community mental health center's treatment services and how the prevention program operates is discussed along with the philosophical foundations on which it is based. (Author)

An appreciation of the environmental, economic, and cultural stresses in black communities should lead community mental health programs to try to change adverse social conditions as well as treat the symptoms of ill health. (Author)

The author contends that while certain kinds of groups can made a beneficial contribution to the fulfilling of overall human growth potential, there are types of behavioral problems, of which marijuana usage is one, for which structural looseness could potentially undo the sincerest of therapeutic efforts. (Author)

Reports a conference attended by participants from 15 countries who discussed programs designed to return mentally ill individuals to productive life. (SB)

The community, state mental hospitals, and a community mental health center work together to provide an environment conducive to the continued well being of chronic mental patients in an area of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The authors describe a program that involves day care centers and the patients' everyday living. (Author)

Computer assisted plan for the Brooklyn State Mental Hospital can be used as a guideline for any future type of facility planning. (Author)