Discusses the need to educate the community to its responsibility toward the mentally ill. (GB)

Changes in both self esteem and accuracy of self concept were observed for psychiatric patients. Experimentals and controls did not differ in mean change in self esteem, but experimentals did increase in self concept accuracy significantly more than did controls. (Author)

Suggested are ways that parents can make their visits to their institutionalized handicapped children more pleasant and even educational. (KW)

The attitudes of an institutionalized 7-year-old mentally retarded, white boy toward his therapist, teachers, and cottage workers before, during, and following two months of psychotherapy were inferred to support the transference hypothesis. (WY)

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…