Describes the impact of the Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) program, designed to identify criminal offenders with drug problems and refer them for treatment. Despite an increase in size and changes in client characteristics, the influx of TASC-referred drug abusers did not decrease program effectiveness. (JAC)

In an effort to assist early childhood professionals to better understand special education practices and procedures in New York State that might affect classroom environment, this paper presents an account of one teacher's search for help with a special needs preschooler. Following a year in which only one-on-one instruction with the boy yielded…

The results indicated that the name given to the counseling service had a significant effect on the problems students felt were appropriate for referral. A Counseling Center was perceived by the students as offering a wider variety of counseling services than either a Guidance Center or a Psychological Services Center. (Auhtor)

Described is the Educational Services Center in Granville, New York, which provides diagnosis, prescriptive planning, and evaluation of students referred for learning problems from four school districts. (KW)

Explains how to coordinate public school personnel to provide diagnosis and therapy to children with learning disabilities. (DR)

Collaboration of a public social service department and a public adoption department demonstrated that it was possible to find permanent adoptive homes for many children who were in foster care. (Editor)

The results of the study show that referral source and test seeking interact in effecting a successful counselor-client contract. Faculty-referred test seekers are least successful and self-referred test seekers are most successful in reaching agreement with a counselor. (Author)

There were no differences found among questionnaire forms containing either an emotional illness or a learning problem explanation of suicide in the number of questionnaires returned, types of responses, or number of volunteers for research. Results indicating Ss prefer the social learning point of view suggest that new conceptions of disordered…

Using a symbolic interaction perspective, the study focused on the extent of agreement between various parties involved in referring children (N=240) with educational difficulties to a university clinic for psychoeducational assessment. (Author)

Reviews the types of information and referral operations that serve the needs of the handicapped, lists selected publications on information for the disabled, and identifies national directories of services and resources for the physically impaired. (FM)

This paper is a preliminary contribution to the potentially insidious problem of the referring person in family therapy. Failure to examine this problem according to the systematic epistemology is the root of several unsuccessful therapies. Explains and gives examples of the tactics devised to reveal and resolve this problem. (Author)

Studies homeless adults entering the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans program to identify whether the rate of referral and admission to vocational rehabilitation differed between adults with psychiatric disorders and those with a coexisting substance-use disorder (SUD). Participants with an SUD had an 11% greater chance of being referred to…

Examines how collaboration with clergy was viewed by mental health and other health care professionals outside the religious community. Seven themes were identified through a content analysis of health care journals, including the benefits of collaboration to each profession, the need to increase the clergy's knowledge about mental health, and the…

Examined referral activities of 373 agencies with regard to health care, educational, and social services for adolescents. Approximately 66 percent of responding agencies received referrals and 87 percent made referrals, with counseling and psychiatry, family planning, and general medical care being most commonly sought services. Social service…