Described is an extensive research and demonstration project in Illinois concerned with the deaf mentally ill. Purposes were to gain experience and knowledge needed to provide therapy for such persons, train professional personnel in therapeutic processes, establish inpatient and outpatient facilities in the State Mental Health system for such…

This report attempts to identify important variables affecting the success of the Lodge Program, affiliated with the Fort Logan Mental Health Center. The Lodge Program is a community based, group oriented, social and work program for the rehabilitation of the refractory, long stay mental patient. Findings reported include the following: (1) the…

This article briefly reviews the literature on matrix organizational designs and discusses the ways in which the matrix design might be applied to the special features of a community mental health center. The phases of one community mental health center's experience in adopting a matrix organizational structure are described. (Author)

This study sought to develop and test a method for predicting inpatient utilization in the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene. A Markov chain mathematical model was developed and tested ex post facto for its accuracy in prediction of inpatient workload by age groups for two successive fiscal years. (Author)

The five-year growth of an active Student Mental Health Service (SMHS) in an urban academic health center is described. The function of SMHS is limited strictly to therapeutic and consultative services for the students and operates as an outpatient treatment facility using a standard 12-session goal-oriented treatment plan. (LBH)

Geriatric ward patients (N=84) were randomly assigned to groups targeted for outplacement planning or inpatient care. During the following year, the mean Morale Inventory score of the outplacement sample improved while that of the inpatient group remained statis. Results argue for an increased emphasis on outplacement programs among geriatric…

In this paper, the history and objectives of the Council on Suicide Prevention are discussed, together with a brief summary of a survey of Toronto Social Service agencies having contact with suicidal persons. (Author)

Practical advice on teaching skills which are essential, but difficult for many medical students to master, is presented. Topics covered include interviewing skills, the mental status examination, the use of psychotropic medication in the general hospital, psychodiagnostic techniques, and dealing with ward management problems. (RM)

In the national discussion of mental health problems, in the literature on the subject, minorities seem to have been almost deliberately omitted. The reasons for such omission of blacks, Spanish-speaking people and Indians from literature and mental health practice are discussed. (Author/RK)

Discussed is a day program which has provided psychiatric treatment for 135 emotionally disturbed children under 5 years of age and their parents. (DB)

This report describes a two-year experience utilizing a consultation service which attempted to integrate health services at a privately financed early childhood education center located within the newly planned city of Columbia, Maryland. (Authors)

Describes Maryland program in which senior psychiatric residents work one day a week for a year as consultants to health departments, in effort to prepare them more adequately for work in the community. (CJ)

Describes diagnostic program for children and families, designed to overcome problems involving staff shortage and imbalance. Recommends approach pending independent followup evaluation. (CJ)

The emphasis is on the use of a behavior checklist to identify maladjusted children, supplemented by a psychological assessment of cognitive, perceptual, and motor functions to screen for "high-risk subjects. (Author)