A Foster-Grandparent Program group received part-time mothering'' by elderly institutional aids for a period of up to more than 4 years. A control group resided in a similar institution which did not provide supplementary foster grandparent'' care. There was a significant difference in IQ in favor of the FGP children. (Author)

A novel method of plumbing the inner experience of inmates has become part of modern penology as prisoners capture in photographs the caged lives they must live. (Editor)

Outerdirectedness has been defined by first author and his colleagues as a style of problem solving characterized by reliance on concrete situational cues rather than by active attempts to deduce abstract relationships. (Authors/MB)

Two separate cross-validations of a previously published correlational study concerning community adjustment of mentally handicapped persons previously institutionalized were reported. (Author/CB)

Over 200 postschool institutionalized retarded males and females were randomly assigned to four dichotomously stratified (high-low) academic treatment groups. (Author)

Three important problems for research on community tenure among former mental patients are identified. (Author)

Eighty-five institutionalized retardates, some of whom were members of a peer group and some of whom were isolates, were compared for adjustment to the institution and conformity to institution rules. (Author)

Reported was a study of the incidence of mental subnormality in the city and county of Bristol on January 1, 1969. (CB)

Results indicated that participants in an in-hospital work-therapy program, randomly selected patients in Fort Logan Mental Health Center, had longer stays in both intensive treatment and total hospitalization and had more readmissions to Fort Logan than nonparticipants. Reprints available from authors at Fort Logan Mental Health Center, Denver,…

An image of the retarded emerged from the drawings, which, generally, were convergent on the adult level but divergent for the adolescents. (Authors)

American social and legal procedures in dealing with children often result not in nurture and protection, but in curtailing of children's rights and arbitrary commitment to institutions." (Editor)