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Download full textMilazzo-Sayre, Laura J.; And Others – 1986
The report examines data from three sample surveys of admissions during 1980 to the inpatient psychiatric services of state and mental hospitals and private psychiatric hospitals and the separate inpatient psychiatric services of non-federal general hospitals. Findings revealed that an estimated 81,532 persons under 18 years were admitted to…
Descriptors: Demography, Emotional Disturbances, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Disorders
Connell, Patricia – 1988
Depression is regarded as the most prevalent mental health disorder in the elderly. Reminiscence, a normative and universal process which can facilitate the resolution, integration, and reorganization of past conflicts can have positive or negative effects on depression. One environment where the elderly are particularly at risk for the negative…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Group Therapy, High Risk Persons, Institutionalized Persons
Salamon, Michael J. – 1987
Nursing home patients suffering from dementia had a desire for placement in a setting where their special needs could be addressed. This resulted in the creation of special nursing home units designed to meet patient needs. Recent reports have provided evidence that nursing home residents suffering from dementia who receive care on these special…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individual Needs, Institutionalized Persons, Life Satisfaction
Salamon, Michael J. – 1987
Over the past two decades, the chronic mentally ill elderly have begun to receive care in residential health care facilities (RHCF) such as domiciliary care, intermediate care, and skilled nursing facilities. While there is justification for this increase, as the mentally ill elderly also present with significant physical illnesses, there are…
Descriptors: Human Services, Individual Needs, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Disorders
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. – 1988
In order to provide regular read-aloud programs in nursing homes, to mentally stimulate and enrich the institutionalized elderly, and to improve access to library materials and services a project, proposed by the Seattle Public Library, provided training for volunteers in read-aloud techniques, sensitivity to nursing home residents, and meeting…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Library Materials, Library Services, Nursing Homes
New York State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled, Albany. – 1987
This report examines issues concerned with the use of aversive behavior modification techniques in actual treatment practices at one intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded. The review of these practices reveals how, once the philosophy of using aversives takes hold at a program (to deal with seemingly intractable behaviors), its…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Ethics
Schonfeld, Lawrence; Dupree, Larry W. – 1985
The Community Aging Program is a demonstration outpatient, mental health program designed to study and treat elderly individuals. The individual's skills relevant to living independently are assessed and those individuals with deficits enter an appropriate treatment program. Two of the treatment programs or modules help the individual adjust to…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Institutionalized Persons, Interpersonal Competence, Mental Health Programs
Childers, John S.; And Others – 1982
Preliminary findings are presented from a study of the performance of 99 institutionalized retarded children on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS), a revised form of the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (VSMS). No significant sex or race differences were revealed on test performances. Mental age was found to correlate with VABS scores with…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Evaluation Methods, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Schreiber, Meyer S., Ed. – 1984
Eleven papers from a June, 1984, seminar on siblings of mentally retarded and developmentally disabled persons are presented. The following papers are included: "An Adult Sibling Network: A Sharing of Experiences" (B. Cohen); "Siblings as Change Agents for Their Brothers and Sisters: Opportunity or Problem?" (G. Wolpert); "Adult Siblings: The…
Descriptors: Adults, Childrens Literature, Developmental Disabilities, Family Relationship
Peer reviewedGickling, Edward E.; Joiner, Lee M. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Forty-nine institutionalized mentally retarded Ss (11- to 26-years-old) were tested to determine the interactions of an auditory ability factor and a personality variable (Level of aspiration) in the prediction of performance on nine Spache Diagnostic Reading Scales. (LC)
Descriptors: Aspiration, Auditory Perception, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedHo, Man Keung; Norlin, Judy – Child Care Quarterly, 1974
Adoption of the helper principle whereby persons receiving therapy also act as therapeutic agents for others is reported to have been effective in a residence for emotionally distrubed and delinquent boys (8- to 18-year old). (GW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Counselor Role, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewedKeith, Kenneth D.; Lange, Brian M. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Exceptional Child Research, Followup Studies
Peer reviewedGerard, Eugene O. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Citizenship, Civil Rights
Peer reviewedCurry, Judith B. – Mental Retardation, 1974
The role of the professional nurse in asseviating or minimizing the separation anxiety and traumatic impact on families during temporary placement of a retarded child in a residential facility is seen in two case studies of girls 3 and 12 years of age. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Exceptional Child Services, Family Counseling
Roederer, Doug – 1976
Designed for state administrative officials, the report examines legal issues involved in treatment and deinstitutionalization of mentally ill and mentally retarded persons. A historical account reviews definitions and available services for the two populations. Implications of significant court decisions are analyzed for cases involving right to…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Emotional Disturbances
