The effectiveness of phenothiazine treatment in delaying hospitalization for those schizophrenic patients hospitalized during the course of their clinic treatment was examined. (CD)

A Paperback bookfair provides one means of extending library service to prison inmates where funds are lacking for conventional service. (Author)

Results indicate that peer support networks exist on the wards of two adolescent units in two mental health centers and outside the institutions as well. Two emergent types of networks, with some overlapping, are the action-oriented and the dialogue-oriented networks, with age and gender as the factors discriminating between them. (Author/RH)

To determine whether blind children in a well-equipped modern institution are receiving enough physical education activities to maintain good physical condition, the physiological characteristics of 20 institutionalized blind children were measured according to body composition, pulmonary function, and tolerance for exercise. (Author)

An overview is presented of several areas of deprivation research (animal, child, young adult) and methods of conceptualizing and measuring deprivation is applied to institutionalized geriatric patients. Suggestions are made for more precise approaches to studying and treating deprivation in this population. (Author/SS)

Examined collateral costs of incarceration for jail inmates. Explored relationship between costs of confinement and affective responses of inmates to incarceration. Found collateral costs could be extensive and were unrelated to legal status, prior criminal history, time in jail, or resources available to inmate at arrest. Collateral costs…

Compared demented patients in special care units in four nursing homes with demented counterparts in same facilities who were not placed in special care units. Results suggest that two groups differ in level of cognitive impairment, behavior, and functional and physical status. No deleterious or beneficial effects were associated with special care…

Medicaid billing information was used to examine the administration of psychotropic medication to residents of community long-term care facilities providing mental retardation services. Results indicated 28.9 percent of such residents in Illinois received at least one psychotropic medication with little or no influence of demographic and facility…

The Survey of Elderly Reading Attitudes completed by 30 institutionalized and 40 noninstitutionalized older adults found differences in reading preferences and needs, attributed to differences in residential lifestyle. (SK)

Investigated self-esteem and career salience of institutionalized male adolescent offenders (n=185) in context of Super's lifespan career development theory. Results indicated that participation, commitment, and values expectations in home-family roles contributed significantly to self-esteem in adolescent offenders. Adolescent offenders differed…

This study evaluated effects on 77 institutionalized patients with mental retardation of changing from anticonvulsant Depakote to the similar drug, Depakene. Results showed no changes in seizure control, less lethargy on Depakene, but some increase in diarrhea and some changes in psychiatric symptoms. Substantial cost savings were achieved by the…

Examines theoretical approaches and nature of evidence typically brought to bear in addressing issue of elderly African Americans being admitted to nursing homes at one-half to three-quarters the rate of elderly whites. Notes that double jeopardy hypothesis effectively describes but does not explain apparent racial inequities in use of…