Explains how to coordinate public school personnel to provide diagnosis and therapy to children with learning disabilities. (DR)

Collaboration of a public social service department and a public adoption department demonstrated that it was possible to find permanent adoptive homes for many children who were in foster care. (Editor)

The results of the study show that referral source and test seeking interact in effecting a successful counselor-client contract. Faculty-referred test seekers are least successful and self-referred test seekers are most successful in reaching agreement with a counselor. (Author)

There were no differences found among questionnaire forms containing either an emotional illness or a learning problem explanation of suicide in the number of questionnaires returned, types of responses, or number of volunteers for research. Results indicating Ss prefer the social learning point of view suggest that new conceptions of disordered…

Using a symbolic interaction perspective, the study focused on the extent of agreement between various parties involved in referring children (N=240) with educational difficulties to a university clinic for psychoeducational assessment. (Author)

Reviews the types of information and referral operations that serve the needs of the handicapped, lists selected publications on information for the disabled, and identifies national directories of services and resources for the physically impaired. (FM)

This paper is a preliminary contribution to the potentially insidious problem of the referring person in family therapy. Failure to examine this problem according to the systematic epistemology is the root of several unsuccessful therapies. Explains and gives examples of the tactics devised to reveal and resolve this problem. (Author)

Studies homeless adults entering the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans program to identify whether the rate of referral and admission to vocational rehabilitation differed between adults with psychiatric disorders and those with a coexisting substance-use disorder (SUD). Participants with an SUD had an 11% greater chance of being referred to…

Examines how collaboration with clergy was viewed by mental health and other health care professionals outside the religious community. Seven themes were identified through a content analysis of health care journals, including the benefits of collaboration to each profession, the need to increase the clergy's knowledge about mental health, and the…

Examined referral activities of 373 agencies with regard to health care, educational, and social services for adolescents. Approximately 66 percent of responding agencies received referrals and 87 percent made referrals, with counseling and psychiatry, family planning, and general medical care being most commonly sought services. Social service…

Investigated referral activities of 45 agencies with respect to agency referral patterns and professionals' appraisal of adolescents' health care status. Combined analysis of qualitative and quantitative data provided valuable insight into problems of unmet adolescent health care needs and underutilization of adolescent health care services.…

Examined effects of acute and long-term exercise on perceptions of personal efficacy in sedentary, middle-aged adults (n=81). Both males and females demonstrated increases in efficacy following exercise. Females, who had demonstrated initially lower self-perceptions than males, made dramatic increases in efficacy during the exercise program,…

Administered Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children to 40 referred children. Correlation coefficients computed between two tests were strong, suggesting consistency in underlying global construct being measured; however, no compelling evidence supporting theoretical structure of two scales was…

Assessed referability index (RI), frequency with which child problem stimulates clinic referral, across 118 child problems as function of problem type (overcontrolled versus undercontrolled), gender, and culture (United States versus Thailand). Problems of both types were more referable in girls than boys; undercontrolled problems were more…