The major purposes of this study are twofold: to examine changes in self-esteem of institutionalized adolescents as a function of exposure to a positive verbal model, and, to compare the efficacy of the experimental procedure across two cultures, Thai and American. Articles from this issue are SO 504 093 and SO 504 094. (Author/RM)

Examines whether or not psychiatric patients and normals share the same frame of reference on what constitutes a hierarchy of effective and socially accepted means of solving interpersonal problems. Patients, in contrast with normals, were found to be deficient in their ability to generate means of solving interpersonal problems. (Author/PC)

Article adapted from a paper presented at the International Congress on Mental Health (7th, London, England, August 1968).

Program aided by Hospital Improvement Project Grant MH-01722-02 from the National Institute of Health.

The document cites research to support the viewpoint that community integration is preferable to institutions for the severely and profoundly mentally retarded. Refuted are such arguments against deinstitutionalization as that retarded people should be segregated, that institutions are a more efficient and less expensive way to provide services,…

The predictive utility of a proposed need-press competence (NPC) model of satisfaction was compared with that of the traditional need-press fit model. Structured interviews with 30 residents from two nursing homes provided measures of needs, press, competence, and satisfaction. The NPC model was a better predictor of expressed satisfaction than…

Presented are six documents concerning the Supreme Court decision in the O'Connor v. Donaldson case on the constitutional rights of civilly committed mental patients. Covered in a preliminary analysis of the major issues and some implications for mental health providers are the topics of immediate impact of the decision, the right to treatment,…

Seven case studies are presented to further research on juvenile problems and to clarify existing juvenile problems. These seven were all inmates of the same institution at the same time, and were selected case studies--neither the best nor the worst. They were all interviewed inside the penal institution. The first oart asked each about the…