Looks at relationship between recovery (symptom reduction) from serious psychiatric disorder and patient-held and therapist-held expectations for recovery. Objective measures of prognostic expectations were taken from patients upon hospital admission and from therapists shortly thereafter. Found that therapists', but not patients', expectations…

Seeks to determine whether elderly persons in need of long-term care services experience similar alterations in morale as they progressed along a path toward institutionalization. Major hypothesis asserts differential over-time morale response should be observed, and such responses will be related to the adjudged needs of the sample members for…

Examines the concepts employed by normal and retarded children matched for mental age in kindergarten through fourth grades. Two studies explored the schema by which these children organized their experience into meaningful patterns. (LLK)

The major purposes of this study are twofold: to examine changes in self-esteem of institutionalized adolescents as a function of exposure to a positive verbal model, and, to compare the efficacy of the experimental procedure across two cultures, Thai and American. Articles from this issue are SO 504 093 and SO 504 094. (Author/RM)

Examines whether or not psychiatric patients and normals share the same frame of reference on what constitutes a hierarchy of effective and socially accepted means of solving interpersonal problems. Patients, in contrast with normals, were found to be deficient in their ability to generate means of solving interpersonal problems. (Author/PC)

Article adapted from a paper presented at the International Congress on Mental Health (7th, London, England, August 1968).

Program aided by Hospital Improvement Project Grant MH-01722-02 from the National Institute of Health.