The article discusses the role that the Foxboro Company Plant in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, played in the C.H.I.R.P. and H.I.R.E. programs for the vocational rehabilitation of restored mental patients. (Author/BP)

This paper elaborates a program of cooperative involvement of the state mental health centers directors association, university residential instruction and university extension in strengthening family life education resources. It suggests a model for integrating interests of agency personnel, advanced students on campus and state extension staff.…

Results indicated that the 959 blacks compared to a 10 percent random sample of 1,190 whites (a) represented a different group of clients in demographic characteristics, (b) were no more likely to receive inferior forms of treatment programs, (c) saw paraprofessional rather than professional personnel, and (d) failed to return after the initial…

This document contains 19 papers from the ninth World Conference of Therapeutic Communities (TCs) that deal with the interface between the mental health establishments and the TC. Papers include: (1) "Psychiatry and the TC" (Jerome Jaffe); (2) "The Chemical Brain" (Sidney Cohen); (3) "Where Does the TC Fail?" (Ab…

The need for mental health services coordination is discussed in this report. It is noted that, without coordination, government units and service providers can operate independently and in competition with one another. The move to deinstitutionalization is discussed, including the lack of service coordination resulting from this move and the…

This paper is concerned with the problem that elderly persons do not seek or receive mental health services as frequently as their numbers or the incidence of mental health problems would indicate is appropriate. The report focuses on the identification of innovative mental health service delivery programs which have been designed to reach and to…

The increasing presence of the mentally ill among the nation's homeless is the topic of this report. The problems presented by deinstitutionalization are discussed, including: (1) the homeless mentally ill as a disruptive element of society; (2) mentally ill persons who shuttle between the hospital and the community; (3) young chronic patients who…

The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the problems confronting minority administrators of mental health agencies. Twenty-five minority directors of Community Mental Health Centers were given questionnaires asking for information about their backgrounds and the design, structure, and operation of their respective mental health…

It is important that research on plateaued managers differentiate psychological and tenure plateauing. A study was conducted which employed the combination of a psychological variable and tenure on the job to define plateaued and nonplateaued managers. It was proposed that being plateaued implies not only being in a job for a long time, but also…

Survey asked clinic and center directors why services were not being used by nonwhite students. Directors gave four explanations for this phenomenon. Authors suggest that many mental health professionals are not fully meeting their responsibilities to nonwhite students. (Author)

Article examined the Brookside Park Family Life Center, established by the Boston Model Cities Administration, and how it provides comprehensive health and social services to families. (RK)

Psychiatrists have learned that delivering mental health services in a culture long dominated by magical thinking is not easy. Article discussed the problem of bringing the Eskimo into the care of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute and contemporary society. (Editor/RK)