Results showed the incentive condition as superior on percentage of attendance at activities, town passes taken, and days spent out of the hospital, while the interaction condition was superior on nurses' rating scales. (Author)

What librarians have done and are doing to serve the handicapped and institutionalized as well as what they might do in the future are explored. (35 references) (Author/NH)

Eighty orphanage children, 6-10 years old, were matched with children in normal homes and tested for recognition of emotion in speech. Recognition scores were higher for (a) negative than positive emotions, (b) female than male voices, and (c) educated and uneducated speech, though these effects interacted with age. (Author/WY)

The MMPI was used to derive personality measures. Therapist and patient ratings of the therapy relationship served as the dependent variables. Therapy outcomes were found to be positively related to therapist's level of anxiety and negatively related to therapist's level of repressiveness. Patients' levels of anxiety and repressiveness were both…

In the treatment of children in institutions, the emphasis is shifting from one-to-one therapy to the group living unit as a means of socialization. Such an approach highlights the role of the child care counselor as a primary therapeutic agent. (Author)