Reports on the results of a survey of psychiatrists and residents who received marital and family therapy training during their second year of residency. Data indicate that such training has an immediate positive effect on practice and is carried forward into later practice. (Author/BL)

Examines questionnaire responses from 580 vocational rehabilitation counseling professionals regarding perceived needs for training in the area of psychiatric rehabilitation. Rated opportunity for continuing education as the optimal vehicle for training. Translating psychiatric diagnoses into functional behavioral terminology was ranked foremost…

Discusses problems encountered in using the Matarazzo Checklist to rate students' interviewing skills with psychiatric patients. (RM)

In many urban centers, responding to mentally ill people has become a large part of the police peacekeeping function. This article highlights the police role in handling mentally ill persons. Law enforcement options are discussed, including both formal and informal options. It is noted that officers decisions to hospitalize, arrest, or deal with a…

This article describes the basic procedures of the technique of systematic desensitization, and suggests that social welfare practitioners make use of this extensively tested approach to dysfunctional behavior. (ST)

Article cites four areas of consultant activities for university counseling services designed to offer students a greater opportunity for their psychological well-being. (Author/RK)

This paper focuses on the catchment area, administration, continuity of care, staffing and funding of community mental health centers. A companion paper explores the area of planning for services. (Author)

The counselor assists emotionally troubled clients to recognize their problems and to accept psychiatric referral by using communication alternatives such as reflection of feeling, reflection of experience, interpretation, and confrontation with maintenance of tension. The clients can be assisted in evaluating mental health resources and arranging…

of the 1/3 to 2/3 of school phobic adolescents who had returned to school after treatment at the in-patient unit, 1/3 of the group were well-adjusted, 1/3 had limited functioning, and 1/3 were severely incapacitated by neurotic problems and interpersonal difficulties. This paper is the basis of a talk delivered, by invitation, at the Charles Burns…

Four boys ages 7 to 9 years, who were identified at birth as having an XYY sex chromosome constitution, were studied in order to examine the thesis that XYY karyotype creates a predisposition to violent or antisocial childhood behavior. Results gave no support to this thesis, but reveal an unexpected shift towards a depression reaction to…

An epidemiological survey was designed to investigate the possible causal influence of biological and psychological factors on hyperactivity and conduct disturbance among 226 primary school boys. (Author/DB)

The article explores the feasibility of integrating child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric care. Aspects to consider in setting up such a program include the nature of the integration (partial at first, using a child/adolescent tutorial model), the diagnostic categories to be integrated, the age ranges of patients, and staff preferences. (PHR)

The strongest correlation between number of visits and treatment outcome was for the long-term personality clinic and the short-term crisis and adolescent clinics. The outcome of treatment for a borderline disorder cannot be compared to that of a patient with acute situational anxiety. (JAC)

This paper presents a model which integrates a wide range of possible interventions using family treatment, and provides a method of differential decision making with regard to the intervention to be used in a given case. This model uses an ecological perspective. (Author)