This investigation is a follow-up of the subsequent psychiatric histories of children who did or did not participate in a preventively oriented school mental health program. Early detected vulnerable children were found to have disproportionately high later appearances in a community-wide psychiatric register. Retrospective analyses of the…

Critically examines the efficacy, training, and administration of research in terms of meeting the goal of children's mental health; the emphasis is on rationally analyzing our empirical enterprise as it applies to practical payoff, especially mental health. (Author/JM)

Describes a mental health program that makes use of teacher-taught materials that do not require extensive preparation by the teachers involved. The program attempts to alter personality through the use of techniques that promote education in mental health and experimentation with group and individual behavior. (Author)

Effectiveness Training Programs are offering parents, teachers, counselors and administrators a new philosophy of dealing with children and youth, and of working with each other. These courses hold out a challenge to persons who have an interest in humanizing our families and schools. (Author)

Digest of papers of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatry Association (San Francisco, California, March 23-26, 1970). (RD)

The author urges wider use of positive reinforcement theories in helping emotionally disturbed and mentally handicapped children. Underlining the influence of environment on behavior, he also notes that behavior modification programs utilize fewer trained personnel more effectively and, like Tennessee's Re-Education Treatment, allow for therapy in…

Reports on the use of applied behavioral science techniques to develop a performance appraisal instrument and system in a mental health organization. The system integrates individual, professional, and institutional values into an overall framework including parts of the organization in conflict. (Author/WAS)

Describes five programs designed to reduce or prevent mental illness by providing support, skills training, and anticipatory guidance to parents of children up to five years of age. (Author/MJL)

Proposes a model for planning activities that will help human service practitioners to prevent emotional problems in a targeted group or community. Provides practitioners with a framework for identifying variables affecting a population, a means for assessing which variables to address, and a structured approach to planning preventive…

Describes a program to assess the vocational interests of clients at the Kankakee Drug Abuse Rehabilitation Center. The program attempted to intervene and impact those with erratic work histories. Results indicate clients made some job progress but the number changing jobs and seeking new employment did not change. (JAC)

Health educators can play a significant role in the development of students' mental health. Key concepts identified for the mental health curriculum include: (1) an understanding of the student's self esteem; (2) values clarification and decision making; and (3) health counseling. (JN)

A pilot project in education for mental health administration at Wayne State University is described and evaluated. The one-year curriculum was continuously refined, based on studies conducted by the project staff and project evaluation data. Project goals and processes to meet them are outlined. (MSE)

This essay explores the scientific research and the ideological principles behind the controversy over deinstitutionalization. References are made to the effects of institutionalization and the failure of communities to organize and provide adequate services for normalization. (EB)