Summarizes a national survey of the hospice community. Results indicated that the hospice community is attempting to meet the mental health training needs of its paid staff members and volunteers. However, more than half expressed a need for further training and a more systematic and comprehensive curriculum. (Author)

Presents a nonbureaucratic model of mental health service delivery: the Family Life Center in Columbia, Maryland. Describes services through three programs: a counseling service, community services, and an information and referral service. Professional volunteers work with clients referred by counseling coordinators. Discusses implications for…

Discussing the Jonestown mass suicide, Charles Manson, etc., this article maintains children must be alerted to the fact that there are people and advocacies capable of exerting the kind of influence that causes followers to act with total irrationality; educators must emphasize the development of strong, questioning minds. (Author/JC)

A total of 242 university students seen in an outpatient mental health clinic were evaluated for symptom changes during treatment, using both a self report inventory and chart notations. The extent to which chart-rated overall improvement correlated with self-rated improvement on specific symptoms is analyzed. (JN)

Factor analysis of nine problem topics revealed personal-social and educational-vocational dimensions. Females were more likely than males to discuss both problem areas with provider groups. Blacks and Chicanos were more likely than Anglos to take personal problems to professionals. (Author)

Describes a continuing education program in mental health for practitioners working for and with aging individuals. The program aims at improving the care of residents in long-term care facilities and strengthening the relationships between the mental health centers, the state hospital, and long-term care facilities in Southeast Indiana. (CT)

Boredom relates to many areas within a society: crime, child abuse, suicide, extreme loneliness, family tension, depression, violence, alcoholism, and drug abuse; a primary concern of the leisure services should be the alleviation of boredom. (JD)

A successful, cooperative, short-term, crisis intervention, mental health program has been developed between Fulton-McDonough County Community Health Center and the health service of Western Illinois University, with a fulltime consultant provided by the community health center and paid by the university. (MB)

Describes and explains the role of 14 ethnic fraternal associations in promoting the individual and social health of their members through benefit programs. (Author/AM)

An adaptation of a school-based preventive mental health program is described and evaluated. Teachers and college student volunteers used behavioral reinforcement techniques to work with groups of maladapting second graders. Experimental subjects compared to controls improved significantly in classroom adjustment. (Author)

School integration efforts in recent decades have highlighted the prevalence of racial friction in the public schools. A mental health consultation project developed in Pittsburgh confronted the issue of racial and cultural differences head-on in an attempt to effect social change in the schools. (Author)

Describes the risk factors and high incidence of psychopathology among children in out-of-home care placements. Presents a framework and guiding principles for mental health service delivery that are consistent with the clinical needs of children in care and the child welfare goal of permanency. (JPB)

Examines job-related, client-perpetrated threats or physical violence against social workers in general, and community outreach mental health professionals in particular. Highlights the critical role of supervisors and administrators in developing proactive prevention and postincident response policies and procedures that create an organizational…

A multidisciplinary team model used at a child and adolescent mental health service in Norfolk (England) was evaluated. Team members represented three different professional backgrounds: practitioners, managers, and planners. Formative evaluation results suggest that it is possible to establish interprofessional teams able to integrate with…

Looks at the growing trend of mental-health specialists in schools to address the psychological needs of students. Discusses the traditional approach, in which the mental-health specialist functions as an outside consultant advising teachers, and the nontraditional approach, in which the specialist provides direct services to students. (WFA)