The study examined the expressive communicability (i.e., the amount, fluency, elaboration, clarity, and veracity of voluntarily transmitted information about oneself) and belief systems of 30 hospitalized adult schizophrenics and 30 matched normals. Schizophrenics differed from normals on all measures and the different beliefs predicted expressed…

Two large and five small institutions were rated on resident management practices, aid attitudes, and demographic variables. Institution and resident variables were used to predict responsiveness to social reinforcement, wariness, and outerdirectedness. Of the predictor variables, only mental age (MA) was related to all three. (Author/CL)

Suggests that narcissistic, borderline, and antisocial personality disorders are not discrete diagnostic categories, but that they lie along a continuum and have in common the dimensions of degree of self-centeredness and degree of differentiation. Presents evidence supporting existence of continuum of behavior rather than discrete diagnostic…

Discusses effective treatment of adolescents in long-term psychiatric hospitals or residential treatment centers and the need for a family treatment model that integrates a long-term psychodynamically oriented residential treatment approach with family systems theory. A four-stage model for working with families having a hospitalized adolescent…

Examined social and spatial integration among residents of a life care facility who varied in mobility status. Able residents reported more personal discomfort with wheelchair users than with residents who used canes or walkers. These reports were reflected in their spatial separation from, and low levels of interaction with, the less mobile…

Briefly describes techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy for teaching children self-control and considers examples from current literature under three headings: (1) the importance of training components; (2) the results of variations in training content and context; and (3) the applicability of procedures to clinical cases. (RH)

Investigated the Luria-Nebraska Intellectual Processes Scale (IPS) as a predictor of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) IQs among alcoholic inpatients. Strong correlations were found between IPS and WAIS Verbal IQ and Full Scale IQ; however, the correlation with Performance IQ was only -.41. (NRB)

Behavioral changes among seven adolescents with severe handicaps after moving to more normalized environments, were compared with changes among matched Ss remaining in an institution. After six months, experimental Ss made significantly greater gains in group maintenance and in the nongoal-oriented behavior subcategory of sitting. Greater change…

Presents goals, types of groups, and unique issues and considerations related to group counseling with nursing home residents. (Author)

Examined the effects of prior practice on the Set Test (ST), a test of verbal fluency, in 30 geriatric patients assigned to specific or nonspecific practice groups or a control. Results showed a significant improvement for the practice groups from days 1 to 2. (JAC)

The relationship between training history and the distinctiveness of stimulus cues in original learning and in transfer on the learning of intradimensional and extradimensional shifts by 96 adult institutionalized, retarded Ss was investigated. (Author)