Describes a Latin American project to create a complete set of self-contained materials for the first half of a post high school health and medical education. (Author/PG)

Considers some of the major issues developing in the medical and health education fields. (Author/RK)

Authors describe their experience in an unusual free clinic in Galveston, Texas, and present implications derived from that experience. (DM)

The present study investigated the effects of paraprofessionals used as therapeutic agents with moderately disturbed elementary-school children. The impact of this program on individual children and the aides was evaluated in several ways. (Author)

Examines human services in China and reports that they demonstrably are based on the philosophy that the highest end of the individual is selfless service to the people. (DM)

Considers data drawn from an earlier study and explores the proportion of the population that used mental health services as well as the extent those services were used by students at the University of Pennsylvania. (Author/RK)

The key to the future lies in a mutual redefinition and new understanding of campus community health and of how responsibilities for organization, programming, and financing may best be reallocated in the interests of health. (Author)

Focuses on how imaginative and energetic people at the grass roots level can use Federal and local resources" for food and medical services, and thereby attack poverty on a broadened basis." (Author)

In a New York center, the parents of children undergoing psychiatric counseling must attend three orientation meetings; specific examples of resulting attitude changes are given. (SP)

Excerpts from a full report which appeared in the City Almanac, a publication of the Center of New York City Affairs of the New School for Social Research. (MB)

Results indicated that participants in an in-hospital work-therapy program, randomly selected patients in Fort Logan Mental Health Center, had longer stays in both intensive treatment and total hospitalization and had more readmissions to Fort Logan than nonparticipants. Reprints available from authors at Fort Logan Mental Health Center, Denver,…

Clients receiving psychotherapy and those not receiving therapy did not initially differ significantly on a number of subject variables. (Author)

The Broward County, Florida, school psychological service is developing preventive and positive mental health programs. This paper describes one such program, an inservice training workshop offered to school personnel. (Author)