A study to determine quality of life and care in 20 Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities in the Metro Denver Area revealed care was better than anticipated. Assessments were made on 158 residents regarding problems, functioning level, and appropriateness of level of care based on information from residents, staff, and medical records. (Author)

Social factors as measured by a community adjustment scale and other known variables associated with recidivism were examined for their ability to predict rehospitalization of former mental patients. The results suggest that social factors are important determinants of recidivism. (Author)

The Wickens "release from proactive inhibition" task involves presenting several trigrams of one type for several trials and then shifting to another type. College students, elderly community residents, and elderly rest-home residents were compared on the Wickens task. College students were superior in over-all memory. (Author)

Presented is the case history of a severely mentally retarded patient with a 49, XXXXY chromosome pattern. (DB)

The present study was conducted to determine the applicability of human relations training in the rehabilitation of selected prisoners in a Southern prison. Inmates who participated in the study were able to learn discrimination between helpful and nonhelpful communication and to make positive gains in their work behavior. (Author)

Available from: EC 090 474. The Security Unit School--an educational and residential treatment model in Pennsylvania for 24 juvenile offenders (15-18 years old)--is described in terms of problems encountered in assimilating students into the program, planning a curriculum, developing effective instructional materials, and providing treatment. (SBH)

Effective aftercare interventions are the key to preventing recidivism among juvenile offenders. In 1987, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention established a research and demonstration program to develop, assess, and disseminate an intensive aftercare program targeted at these offenders. This program, the Intensive Aftercare…

An examination of trends in mental hospital commitments among the Chinese in California over the past 100 years indicates a two-fold increase for the general population compared to a seven-fold increase among the Chinese; rates of increase within the Chinese population were not uniform; changes also occurred in patterns of diagnosis. (Author/JM)

Critically reviewed are studies on employment of mentally retarded persons as paraprofessionals. (Author/MC)

Examines some of the problems associated with the training, retraining, and rehabilitation of people in urban, industrial California. Indicates that on an average day in 1969, over seven million people in California were under institutional care or in some institutional program related to law enforcement, social welfare, hospitals, and schools.…

The current study is a one-year follow-up of an earlier report that group counseling with institutionalized delinquent females resulted in significant gains in the connotative meanings of several concepts. (Author)

Institutionalized mentally retarded children performed on a two-choice discrimination task under one of six conditions of reward. One indication of the results was that response-contingent non-consumable rewards were not more distracting than response-contingent consumable rewards. (Author/KM)

The experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that institutionalized children have a greater need to affiliate, compared to noninstitutionalized children and that this need is negative in nature. Data confirmed the hypothesis. (Author/JB)