This study explored the effects of type of behavioral treatment and living environment on college students' (N=216) person-perceptions and causal attributions of deviant behaviors of a 17-year-old with mental retardation or normal intelligence. The results suggested that positive behavioral approaches and normalized community settings, at least as…

This document contains witnesses' testimonies and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine the living conditions of children in state care. Parents, youth workers, legal advocates, program administrators and state officials discuss the cost effectiveness of community-based services and the effectiveness of various…

Two programs developed by the State of North Carolina are described which are designed to provide special services to the mentally retarded incarcerated adult male. Based on results of an assessment of adaptive skills believed relevant to coping in the prison population, coupled with an intellectual quotient (IQ) below 70, offenders may be placed…

This report evaluates the types of data gathered about nursing homes during a survey process by the State of Illinois through its Inspection of Care Review and Quality Incentive Program (QUIP) assessments. The data are compared to other State systems/demonstrations in an effort to choose those indicators which best measure the quality of care in…

Homelessness affects a wide cross-section of society. Causes of homelessness, attempted remedies, and potential solutions for the future are presented. Descriptions of the experiences of men, women, and children who have fallen through the "safety net" of social services are included from cities throughout the country. Support is given for the…

Learned helplessness often precedes depression. The elderly are more likely than the general population to be faced with uncontrollable events which may bring on learned helplessness. Intervention by gerontological counselors has been useful in reducing effects of helplessness. With pseudohelplessness, persons act helpless in order to control…

Reality Therapy is a system which stresses that individuals are responsible for their own behavior, and that excuses based on environment, heredity, or the past are not acceptable as explanations for behavior. To assess the impact of training in Reality Therapy on youth at the Maine Youth Center, subjects (all students at the Center) were asked to…

The Program for Institutionalized Children provided a supplementary individualized reading and/or mathematics remedial program, utilizing a diagnostic-prescriptive approach with the Croft Reading and Base Mathematics materials. Achievement was measured by means of criterion referenced testing procedures. Targeted pupils were all Title I eligible…

Reviewing the literature on physical attractiveness' relationship to selself-image and social acceptability, the author points out the need for self-care courses as "social therapy," gives a step-by-step procedure to develop such programs for the institutionalized, and tells how to become a teacher in a social therapy program. (AJ)

The relative effectiveness of alternative programs in producing changes in ambulation and toilet training among retarded individuals admitted to an institution was evaluated. (Author)

Paper presented at the Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency (1st, Montpellier, France, September 16, 1967).