A deaf, profoundly retarded institutionalized 20-year-old, who engaged in mattress ripping, was required to participate in forced practice behavioral training. Repeatedly physically guided through ripping mattresses, he was given the aversive consequence of a squirt of tabasco sauce solution. After 5 weeks of intensive behavioral training and a 3…

Three studies were undertaken to examine topics of care planning, personnel management, and quality assurance in long-term care facilities. The first study examined the formulation and implementation processes of care planning for nursing home residents. The exemplary homes' care planning included the existence of strong care planning leadership,…

In 1977 Paul and Lentz published results of social learning therapy, also called token economy, for chronic psychiatric inpatients of state mental hospitals. The enormous success of token economy therapy both for the patients' mental health and for cost effectiveness led Paul and Lentz to conclude that this therapy was the treatment of choice for…

This document presents testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine proposed legislation concerning the public welfare of juveniles. The two bills considered were proposed to promote the public welfare by protecting dependent children and others from institutional abuse (S.520) and by removing juveniles from…

Describes a correctional rehabilitation program (New Gate) wherein inmates who are released from prison after participating in the program are helped into college. (HMV)

Discusses the implications of several recent court decisions which seem to establish at least the principle of minimum standards of treatment for juveniles who have been involuntarily committed to institutions. (EH)

In this speech the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice notes that although progress has been made against racial and sex discrimination, there is an area in which civil libertarians have only recently become involved. This area concerns the rights of the mentally retarded and the mentally ill. A…

A program, which allows institutionalized retardates to contract for bicycle use, teaches bicycle repair, maintenance and safety skills. (CL)