Reported was the use of a paradigm for systematic program planning, evaluation, and development as illustrated by data from a study designed to develop the self-help skills of 119 severely retarded institutionalized individuals (ages 6 to 50 years). (Author/DB)

The organization of the self-help program for adolescents at Mendocino State Hospital is structured to provide a continuing growth experience for its residents through the strategic use of role relationships, status positions and other social reinforcers. (Authors)

Caution is necessary in contemplating placement of adolescent girls with sex role identity problems: postplacement visiting between daughter and mother is important. (Editor)

Describes program at East Mississippi State Hospital which resulted in gains in basic skills for all participants. (SP)

The author argues that behavioral research within an institutional setting should be limited to investigations that can influence program development and decision making. (GW)

The study investigated the effect of a videotape instructional routine in combination with contingent application of token reinforcements on attendant child interaction (nine female attendants and five children) in a residential facility for developmentally retarded children. (Author/GW)

Implications of the findings for the programming of institutions for the retarded are discussed. (Authors)

The effect of monetary incentives on dependent-independent and extroversion-introversion behavior of 24 retarded institutionalized adolescents was investigated. (Author)

While maternity homes are deviant-housing institutions, they differ from institutions that have been typically studied in a number of respects crucial to the inmates' experience. In a variety of ways, maternity homes underwrite moral reprieve and moral reinstatement. (Author/DB)