Reports that the elderly appear most influenced in health attitudes and behaviors by various factors within the setting so those who identify a major source of care tend to be higher utilizers, do less "shopping-around," and exhibit less negative behaviors such as needing care without seeking it. Discussion of the article follows. (Author)

Counseling of older persons presents different problems depending on the setting. Cases of suicide occurring in general medical hospitals and neuropsychiatric hospitals and calls to a community agency are reviewed for diagnostic and demographic characteristics as well as probable causes. Suggestions are made to meet needs in hospital and crisis…

Compares education matched young brain-damaged, young nonbrain-damaged, old brain-damaged and old nonbrain-damaged groups on a battery of measures of cognitive, perceptual, and motor skills. By factor analysis, the 26 original measures were reduced to four, called nonverbal memory, language ability, motor ability, and psychomotor problem solving.…

Measured attitudes of disabled individuals toward the staff who gave them rehabilitation services. Attitudes of two groups at a rehabilitation hospital were evaluated: (a) clients from a vocational rehabilitation workshop and (b) clients from a community college satellite program. Found clients in the community college program perceived staff as…

This study, by comparing for learning disabled and control children parental frequency rating of physical punishment and of completion of tasks, hypothesized that parental indulgence is associated with learning disorders. Referral children with learning problems (N=18), were rated significantly lower on both measures that students referred for…

MMPI was given to 145 male and female drug abusers on admission to three therapeutic communities, and retests were done at the finish of the first phase of the program. Comparisons of stayers and quitters showed quitters higher on the F and psychotic scales. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether previous research in the area of premature termination had confounded personality with social class variables. (Author)

Examined the effects of early identification and psychological services on underachievement through a follow-up study conducted six years later. One hundred and seventeen fourth-grade underachievers were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received psychological services. Follow-up studies were made of them at high…

This report outlines the initial phase in the development of a set of intervention techniques, and their accompanying assessment procedures. Training procedures for skills in negotiating behavior changes were designed to alleviate marital conflicts in 10 moderately distressed couples. (Author)

Women who elect coeducational living when first available do differ from those who do not. Such differences are quite comparable to differences found between volunteers a) for a psychological experiment and b) for creativity training and their respective nonvolunteer classmates. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to discover if there was a relationship in decisions made between adults and 11-year old students assumed to be at different levels of the formal operations stage in their responses to a situation calling for a moral judgment. (Author)

Attempts, through conducting an internal and external assessment of a specific pre-service education program, to generate some concrete criteria that other university teacher education institutions might utilize in formulating a coherent and logical educational sequence. Results of the study indicate the need for a more field based teacher…

The utility of employing elevated scores on the Depression and Psychasthenia scales of the MMPI as an indicator of a genuine, enduring clinical problem was investigated for a male college student population. Pilot data suggest that MMPI scale scores decrease following psychotherapy but not with the passage of time alone. (Author)

Using a non-equivalent control group design, the present study found the three student-helper roles of tutor, clerical worker, and audio-visual operator ineffective in changing students' self-esteem, attitude toward school, performance in spelling and achievement in arithmetic. (Author)