The Inpatient Scale of Minimal Functioning (ISMF)--based on revised scoring of the Social Breakdown Syndrome Gradient Index (SBSGI) item pool--is described as a means of overcoming inherent problems in the SBSGI scoring procedure. The ISMF possesses greater reliability, with an increment in concurrent validity as compared to SBSGI. (Author)

A clinician's perspective on the complex and controversial issues related to mentally ill patients' rights is offered. (Author)

Two hundred twenty-one predominantly adolescent institutionalized retarded residents, classified as hyperactive, were compared on 15 variables to a matched group classified as nonhyperactive. (Author/MC)

Correlates of very highly elevated, uninterpretable'' Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPIs) of white and black psychiatric inpatients were obtained by comparing descriptors for these profiles with those for less elevated profiles in two independent samples. (Author)

Responses of 15 attending adults to more than 800 samples of behavior of 49 ambulatory institutionalized young retarded children were recorded. (Author)

Study of 18-21 year old men in a reformatory indicated both delinquency prediction scales generally correlated low with most of the personality inventory scales; scale scores of both inventories were generally elevated. (Author)

In a study of interpersonal and situational determinants of self disclosure in resistive" patients, psychiatric aides conducted brief interviews with hospitalized narcotics addicts. These results partially confirm prior therapy analogue studies involving the A B variable. (Author)

Development of a measurement technique for recording observations of head banging in an institutionalized mentally handicapped boy is discussed. (CD)