Contends that the primary focus of social welfare management should be to optimize effective services to clients. Addresses several dimensions of effectiveness-oriented management practice as well as some of the common problems encountered by administrators who seek to make client outcomes the primary criterion of agency success. (Author)

Michigan physicians (N=930) were asked whether they made nursing home visits and if not, why not. A typology was developed to differentiate among various physician types based on reasons given. Six physician types were found, each identified with a different policy lever that could be used to encourage them to treat nursing home patients. (Author)

Describes the use of cable television for social service presentations to serve the community and enhance the status of the profession. Four areas are discussed: information and referral, education and prevention, programs for special groups, and community organization issues. (JAC)

The work group report identifies three priority areas for improved community services for disabled adolescents: (1) service systems deficient because of lack of consumer orientation, integration, access to services and systemwide planning, (2) inadequate leadership, and (3) lack of adequate accountability. (CL)

A recently established rural service delivery model in Alberta designed to overcome some difficulties in serving low incidence handicapped students in rural areas is described. The model includes the establishment of regional centers and the provision of outreach services including assessment, inservice, and consultation by specialists otherwise…

Analyzes the interaction between psychiatric services in public general hospitals and in other institutional settings. A one-day census of patients in a New York general hospital showed the hospital was providing care to a large number of patients in need of other, less intensive institutional settings. (BH)

Comprehensive college programs for learning disabled students may include special admission policies, diagnostic testing, and prescriptive planning, special advisement, remediation of basic skills, tutoring in subject area courses, spelling courses for college success, auxiliary aids and services, and counseling services. (CL)

Five care models in services to mentally retarded persons are discussed in terms of relative strengths, weaknesses, effects, and underlying assumptions. The models include child development, medical, social-ecological, behavioral, and psychoeducational models. (CL)

Results of a survey conducted in nine districts of British Columbia indicated that less than 1% of the total student population was funded under the severe behavior problems category. Only one district required specific training in special education for their teachers. Inservice training and program evaluation methods varied from district to…

Services for learning disabled adults are discussed through a comparison of their treatment in the Dutch and Danish delivery of services. Promising practices are related from a European perspective and questions are raised about the evolution of services to learning disabled adults in the United States. (Author/CL)

The article extends the concept of hierarchy of services and least restrictive environment to gifted students. A modified hierarchy conceives of increases in services from restrictive (regular class) settings to nonrestrictive (special classes and schools) ones. (CL)

A variety of approaches to planning leisure and recreational programs, services, and activities are described. (GW)

The author uses the construct of social traps and fences--problems of short-term versus long-term gains and self-interest versus common good--to conceptualize the situation presently existing in many retardation institutions. (Author/IM)

This paper describes the design rationale for a prototype of an innovative assessment product, and the process that led to the design. The goals of the Biomass project were to demonstrate: (1) an assessment product designed to serve two new purposes in the transition from high school to college; and (2) the capability needed to produce this kind…

Colleges and universities have moved to develop online courses that are independent of time and place, but equal effort and financial commitment have not been given to the development or licensing of support services that accompany these courses. Services should be available at the same times that academic courses are, yet few institutions provide…