Reviews the history of immigration from the Dominican Republic to the United States, 1945-92, and depicts characteristics of U.S. Dominicans, including age, race and racial attitudes, income, occupation, and education. Discusses the lack of institutional support for Dominican immigrants. Provides recommendations for meeting the mental health and…

Offers detailed guidelines that could be used as standard operating procedures for the merger of voluntary social service agencies. Discusses a survey of 32 agencies that merged during the years 1973 to 1986. Issues related to the roles of organization, staff, and service delivery in such mergers receive particular attention. (Author/BB)

Presents model providing conceptual framework to help counselors assess client's resources for addressing psychosocial issues resulting from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Hypothesizes that four client resources (special characteristics, social supports, situation, and client characteristics) predict or moderate client's response to…

Responds to model presented in previous article on counseling the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected client. Sees model as capable of dictating many entry points for the counseling psychologist in the lives of HIV-1-infected individuals. As an alternative, presents a less-inclusive model targeted to a specific population (HIV-1-infected…

Responds to model presented in previous article on counseling the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected client. Sees model not as parsimonious model articulating relationships among constructs, but rather as catalog of factors that may influence HIV-related experience. Offers examples of how focus on diversity, social networks, and social…

Responds to model presented in previous article on counseling the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected client. Discusses ethical issues related to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Concludes that careful analysis of interests at stake and appreciation of changing sociomedical context in which they arise are requisite to ethical…

Uses family discourse perspective to analyze social relations in a Work Incentive Program (WIN). Analysis focuses on ways in which WIN staff members oriented to and assessed family as an excuse and extenuating circumstance, instructed clients on the organizationally preferred relationship between WIN and family, and responded to clients whom they…

This paper reacts to previous symposium papers (EC 604 155-161) concerning regulations and quality assurance in Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded (ICF/MR) and stresses the central mission of helping people and the need to achieve quality and not just compliance. (DB)

Used archival research to compare intake judgments made by African-American and white women counselors about 41 African-American and 41 white women clients. Results showed no significant differences in counselor judgments for matched client groups. Results support need to control for sociopsychological variables that may influence counselor…

Responds to case of head-injured former engineering college student who presented for career counseling following automobile accident, three months in coma, and four years of rehabilitation therapy. Discusses issues underlying provision of career counseling to individuals with brain injuries. Cites information needed for planning, explores major…

Responds to case of head-injured former engineering college student who presented for career counseling following automobile accident, three months in coma, and four years of rehabilitation therapy. Recommends vocational evaluation concentrating on a detailed work history, neuropsychological data, work samples, independent living skills…

This article presents a framework for providing services to infants with disabilities and their families, by conceptualizing early intervention in terms of levels of prevention. Primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention are proposed to prevent the manifestation, severity, or extended impact of developmental delays; and implications for…

Examined clients' (n=12) perceptions of the critical factors in a counseling group. Results indicated that openness, participation, and risk taking were among the factors rated as significant. Contends that this knowledge is needed by group leaders if they are to optimize their effectiveness. (Author/PVV)

Social workers (n=271) completed research instrument containing 4 case vignettes with 60 possible outcome objectives from which to select. Social workers' choice of personal and environmental outcomes (attempts to change either aspects of client or aspects of environment) could be quantified and categorized. Conceptual framework used in research…

Explored farm families' attitudes and beliefs about success and failure, locus of responsibility for need, beliefs on predictability and causes of need, attitudes about deservingness and priorities of groups in need, and degrees of acceptability for seeking help. Findings from 42 households with 44 farm families highlighted influence of 1980s farm…