The MMPI was used to derive personality measures. Therapist and patient ratings of the therapy relationship served as the dependent variables. Therapy outcomes were found to be positively related to therapist's level of anxiety and negatively related to therapist's level of repressiveness. Patients' levels of anxiety and repressiveness were both…

In the treatment of children in institutions, the emphasis is shifting from one-to-one therapy to the group living unit as a means of socialization. Such an approach highlights the role of the child care counselor as a primary therapeutic agent. (Author)

Study evidence does not support familiar assumptions of deficiencies in intelligence, personality and value development, resulting because young children were separated from their natural mothers and given many years of institutional care. This paper was presented at the 45th annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Chicago,…

The study evaluated a participative management approach for increasing the frequency of interactions between institutional staff and 15 severely/profoundly retarded residents. Results indicated that during the participative management program there was an increase in staff interactions that were contingent on appropriate resident behavior.…

Survey results showed a reduction of 22.3 percent in the use of major and minor tranquillizers, indicating that a change in the emphasis of care toward training and a less institutionalized environment may help to reduce the need for drug therapy to control deviant behavior in intellectually handicapped people. (Author/SW)

The author reviews trends in court decisions on right to treatment for handicapped persons, and examines resolved and unresolved issues involved in the Supreme Court's decision on Youngberg v. Romeo, which she suggests is narrow and ambiguous, and will only minimally affect institutionalized retarded persons. (CL)

Responsiveness to interview questions was measured in 52 institutionalized retarded children, 57 noninstitutionalized retarded children, and 58 institutionalized adults. Responsiveness was a stable individual behavior, positively correlated with IQ and comparable across the three samples. Responsiveness varied with question type. (Author/CL)