Describes a program designed to help children identify expresssions of love and to explore how one feels when one is loved or not loved. (Author)

Describes establishment and operation of a Student Service Center at San Fernando Valley State College, the intention of which is to assist students through active intervention to make a better adjustment to college environment. Center activities focus on research, community organization (campus), intervention, social action projects on campus,…

The program was to offer service with the goal of promoting growth and development by giving students the opportunity to explore the problems that were interfering with studies, work, and relations with family and friends. Emphasis was to be placed on providing crisis services. The highest degree of confidentiality was to be maintained. (Author)

Describes the philosophy and activities of the Adaptation, Development, and Placement Training Day Program, designed to provide mental health services to clients dually diagnosed as mentally retarded and mentally ill. The program helps developmentally disabled people prepare for community workshop placement. (Author/JAC)

The professionals displayed no greater consensus in their decisions than did the paraprofessionals. The professionals, especially psychologists, were more confident of their decisions. The psychologists were most consistent and focused in their manner of gathering information. (Author)

Increasing numbers of patients will be discharged from mental hospitals because of changes in delivery services. Approximately 650,000 patients will return to their families. This presents new challenges to family therapists. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, Washington, DC, October…

The annotated directory contains citations for 79 adventure programs. Each citation includes program name and address, telephone number, director's name, and a brief description of program purpose, audience, components, length, and capacity. (SB)

The Family Education Association of West-Central Indiana is a response to an expressed community need for parent education. It aims at helping parents understand child behavior; recognize stages of development; clarify values and expectations; reduce family conflict; open communication between parents and children; and build greater mutual respect…

This article examines the treatment services provided the hostages of the Hanafi Muslims in Washington, D.C. in March 1977. The symptoms of the hostages covered a wide spectrum of modalities and differed in severity and persistence. Treatment interventions followed a primary prevention model using a broad-spectrum behavioral group approach.…

An analysis of patient views toward very brief interventions (counseling consisting of three or fewer sessions) indicates that counseling termination should not be viewed as a failure or a patient drop-out, but rather that the original expectations of the patient are met in a relatively brief contact. (MB)

The authors discuss the need for alternative techniques in mental health programs in the schools in both prevention and intervention, review findings on the effectiveness of preschool programs, and present a rationale for school-based prevention programs using non-professional personnel and a multi-disciplinary approach. (IM)

Two training programs in rural Iowa demonstrated community helpers can be trained to function effectively in rural mental health service delivery. Comparable training programs sponsored by the center are currently in progress. Training these natural helpers in interpersonal skills is an important service of community mental health centers. (Author)

This paper is concerned with preventive measures which can be taken against student emotional difficulties arising from life on the college campus. Facilities on other campuses are reviewed with concentration on those aspects applicable to the University of Evansville, and recommendations are made for a facility designed for its campus. (Author)

As an approach to serving adults with mental illness, the Clubhouse Model, developed during the 1950s and 1960s, is particularly suitable for social workers. Clubhouse communities provide support for a full range of daily needs and a participatory environment designed to promote recovery from social isolation and deprivation. Social workers'…