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Peer reviewedHall, Julian C.; Bradley, Anna K. – Social Work, 1975
A major problem of community mental health centers has been to provide an alternative to long-term institutionalization. The authors present a strategy for long term treatment for patients who require brief but recurring hospitalization. Their strategy involves visiting chronic patients at home and providing them with employment. (Author/SE)
Descriptors: Community Services, Helping Relationship, Home Visits, Institutionalized Persons
Download full textStrobino, Jane – 1986
A study examined parents' attitudes about normalization and their decision about out-of-home placement for their children with mental retardation. The sample consisted of 9 parents who had requested institutional placement, 28 parents who had requested group home placement, and 23 parents who had not requested out-of-home placement. A…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Homes, Institutionalized Persons
Retsinas, Joan; Garrity, Patricia – 1985
A nursing home has three discharge tracks, determined at admission and reviewed periodically along with treatment plans. Advised by the admitting physicians, the nursing home social worker assesses each resident's discharge prognosis: (1) a discharge plan is in effect; (2) discharge is problematic; or (3) no discharge is planned. A substantial…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Family Role, Individual Characteristics
Zandi, Taher; And Others – 1988
Much evidence has indicated that personal networks with family, friends, and community members can enhance health and improve psychological adjustment. Personal networks provide elderly persons in particular with companionship, practical help, and useful advice. The ecological models proposed by Bronfenbrenner (1979) portrays the social networks…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
Illinois State Dept. of Public Aid, Springfield. – 1987
This booklet provides a description of 14 projects which were awarded funds during fiscal year 1987 for collaborative research in long-term care to find new ways to treat long-term care patients in Illinois nursing homes. It includes the organization or institution receiving the award, an abstract of the research proposal, and the name of the…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Facilities Management, Health Needs
Aveni, Carl A.; Upper, Dennis – 1976
In this paper, the authors report that in many of the cases they have treated, the living situations and/or environments to which patients were returning upon discharge, were not suitable for either maintaining, or improving upon, the gains achieved while hospitalized. As a result, a community residence training program, based upon a behavioral…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Daily Living Skills, Educational Programs, Institutional Research
Pines, Ayala; Solomon, Trudy – 1977
The purpose of this paper is to present the reader with an indepth study of the special plight of children currently confined in our nation's residential treatment centers. Several of the fundamental legal issues involved in the coercive commitment of minors to such institutions will be discussed, especially those concerning due process and…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Behavior Change, Children, Individual Power
and others; Edgar, Clara Lee – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Language Acquisition
PDF pending restorationPennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg. – 1978
The project described employed library services to broaden the experiences of institutionalized handicapped children and to sharpen their awareness of the environment. The target population included 75 boys and girls, aged 6 to 12, who were in an elementary education program at the Elwyn Institute in Delaware County, Pennsylvania; all of the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Educational Experiments, Educational Innovation
Southeastern Virginia Training Center for the Mentally Retarded, Chesapeake, VA. – 1977
To promote the deinstitutionalization of mentally retarded individuals, a three phase assessment prescription system has been developed. It conceptualizes return to the community as a series of transfers from a restrictive non-programmatic environment (phase one) through specialized short-term program-oriented rehabilitation (phase 2) to the least…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Community Services, Criterion Referenced Tests
Ownby, Margaret; Braun, Sonja – 1979
Moderate success of individualized programs for severely and profoundly mentally retarded persons in a library setting is documented in this report. These programs were developed following a survey tabulation and analysis of individual education programs, individual program plans, programs assessment chart profiles, and psychological and speech…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Guidelines, Individualized Programs, Institutionalized Persons
SHAY, EARL R. – 1963
TO INVESTIGATE THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS ON THE SELF CONCEPT OF PARTICIPATION TRAINING IN GROUP DISCUSSION, 18 INSTITUTIONALIZED MALE ALCOHOLICS (AVERAGE AGE 42.5 YEARS, SCHOOL GRADE ACHIEVEMENT 11.2 YEARS) UNDERWENT THREE HOUR SESSIONS OF GROUP DISCUSSION DURING 12 DAYS IN FEBRUARY 1963, FOLLOWING A CONTROL PERIOD OF 11.8 DAYS. THE BULTER-HAIGH…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Doctoral Dissertations
Humphrey, Dennis A.; Mersky, Laura B. – 1979
Several theories postulate that factors such as socioeconomic status, environmental and genetic influences, and psychological traits account for juvenile delinquents' tendency to be poor readers. The academic needs of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections youthful offender population were explored to determine the need for reading programs…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Correctional Education, Delinquency
Zigler, Edward – 1976
Two papers, one on child abuse and the other on effects of preinstitutional history and institutionalization on the behavior of the retarded, are presented. In the first paper the author stresses the need to document the scope and nature of child abuse in American society and discusses the difficulties in defining where on the continuum discipline…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Environmental Influences, Etiology
Wetzel, Janice Wood – 1978
The rationale for psychosocial micro and macro interventions for the prevention and treatment of depression in aging women is conceptually based upon empirical research. The investigator's person-environment incongruence model of depression, applied to a study of 50 depressed and 50 non-depressed white women for the purpose of exploring possible…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age, Depression (Psychology), Females
