Presented before the Section on Mental Health, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 30, 1968.

The role of therapeutic recreation in psychiatric settings is examined. The importance of establishing a positive communication pattern is emphasized. Elements of assessment in the therapeutic recreation setting are considered, including thought processes and verbal behavior, nonverbal behavior, and awareness of feelings. Treatment planning is…

Multiple discriminant function analysis indicates that drug users see and want a treatment environment that allows open expression of feeling (spontaneity) and control (staff control). These apparently contradictory environmental dimensions define the dilemma in drug treatment, i.e., how to control drug use and simultaneously cope with drug users'…

This study compares children referred for psychiatric reports by the Scottish Children's Hearings with other children known to the reporter (an official) and with anti-social children referred to psychiatrists from other sources. (CM)

Examines the role of the psychotherapist in working with terminally ill patients, both in helping the client prepare for death and in preparing the client's loved ones to be survivors. (Author/HMV)

Describes the United Kingdom Health Advisory Service's recommendation to provide access to psychiatric services to adolescents with sensory handicaps. Presents implications for this based on a case description of a deaf boy on an adolescent unit, discussing general and in-group behavior, behavior changes, and the responses of the other adolescents…

Discusses general attitudes towards unwanted pregnancies and abortions, the methods that students have resorted to in order to abort themselves, and the mental state of college women, who become pregnant with children they don't want. (RK)

This article discusses the development of volunteer programs in clinical and social treatment and prevention areas and analyzes the need for professional supervision of such programs. (Author)

Services are surveyed and found to be inadequate. A plan is outlined for the development of such services based upon the use of indigenous therapists for individual and group psychotherapy, the modification of etiological beliefs, and an emphasis upon primary prevention. The outcome would be services specifically adapted to the culture,…

After training in psychiatry, medical students' attitudes toward mental illness changed to less traditional and restrictive, with increased ability to relate with the psychiatric patients. (IR)

Reprinted from The Lancet, August 1969. (JJ)

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Surveyed CORE-accredited rehabilitation counseling programs (RCE) (N=59) to detail the nature of training available in the area of psychiatric rehabilitation. Results revealed considerable diversity in the coursework and field experience among programs. Found only seven CORE-accredited RCE programs offer a distinct specialty in psychiatric…

Makes general observations about youth services in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Specific reference is made to nontraditional outpatient, youth advisory services attempting to reach youth alienated from traditional mental health services. (Author/RH)