An examination of trends in mental hospital commitments among the Chinese in California over the past 100 years indicates a two-fold increase for the general population compared to a seven-fold increase among the Chinese; rates of increase within the Chinese population were not uniform; changes also occurred in patterns of diagnosis. (Author/JM)

Critically reviewed are studies on employment of mentally retarded persons as paraprofessionals. (Author/MC)

Examines some of the problems associated with the training, retraining, and rehabilitation of people in urban, industrial California. Indicates that on an average day in 1969, over seven million people in California were under institutional care or in some institutional program related to law enforcement, social welfare, hospitals, and schools.…

The current study is a one-year follow-up of an earlier report that group counseling with institutionalized delinquent females resulted in significant gains in the connotative meanings of several concepts. (Author)

Institutionalized mentally retarded children performed on a two-choice discrimination task under one of six conditions of reward. One indication of the results was that response-contingent non-consumable rewards were not more distracting than response-contingent consumable rewards. (Author/KM)

The experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that institutionalized children have a greater need to affiliate, compared to noninstitutionalized children and that this need is negative in nature. Data confirmed the hypothesis. (Author/JB)

Five Seattle-King County agencies cooperate to provide library service to the King County Juvenile Court's Youth Service Center. (DH)

College courses seem to have the potential to change permanently the attitudes of some criminals. (Editor)

Preliminary version presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (New York, March, 1967). Describes procedures for teaching retarded adolescents to use behavior modification techniques with younger patients. (RJ)