In 1968 a telephone service called Hotline began operation in Los Angeles. The concept was planned and implemented by a committee of various community representatives in association with the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles. The Children's Hospital Hotline is one of 300 existing throughout the country, with a…

As required by the Agricultural Act of 1970, the President has submitted to Congress this second annual report on the availability of government and government-assisted services to rural areas. The report pinpoints the strengths and weaknesses of those Federal programs which have a significant impact on rural America and identifies the…

This project was an attempt to provide bilingual vocational education to elderly Franco-Americans on a cooperative basis among three Maine universities. Seventy-seven adult unemployed or underemployed Franco-Americans participated in a human services worker training program based on the Bangor-based certificate level curriculum in gerontology.…

This study investigates public service evaluations among blacks and whites in St. Louis, Missouri over the period 1956 to 1968. Changes in levels and sources of satisfaction with schools, parks, police protection, and garbage collection are examined. (Author/RM)

Three major barriers blocking the delivery of cultural appreciation and participation opportunities to the disabled are lack of trained personnel, architectural barriers, and negative attitudes toward the handicapped. (JD)

Two approaches to vocational reintegration of handicapped workers are described: (1) adapting the disabled to the working environment through treatment, therapy, counseling, selective placement, and prostheses, and (2) adapting the working environment to particular handicaps, with the assistive device fitted to the machine or tool rather than to…

A guide for educators and citizens seeking alternative uses of vacant facilities. Discusses local, legal, economic, and social issues involved. Describes some of the alternative facility uses that include human service centers; use by other government agencies; and conversion to housing, private schools, colleges, and adult education facilities.…

Feminist and nonfeminist men and women (N=232) read a brief advertisement or explicit description of traditional or feminist counselor and reported their impressions of the counselor and their willingness to see the counselor for variety of problems. Results suggest need for more explicit pretherapy information to enable clients to make informed…

Multicultural counseling has the support of various groups, including accreditation bodies. Questions whether information about a specific subculture is helpful in counseling a client who is labeled as being from that subculture or if the differences within groups might possibly be as great as the difference between groups. Suggests that the use…

Presents three articles on housing policies for the elderly. Topics include the need for housing assistance and targeting aid to the disabled, the practicality of delivering support services to impaired elderly in current housing, and potential future directions of federal housing policy. (NRB)

Reviews the quantitative literature on group work with aging persons. Draws from multidisciplinary sources and encompasses the years 1975 through 1985. Discusses 19 empirical studies involving institutionalized and noninstitutionalized older adults, targeted populations, and depressed persons. Studies on reality orientation and remotivation…

Responds to previous articles on counseling techniques of systematic desensitization, anxiety management training, rational restructuring, and stress inoculation training. Criticizes coginitive-behavioral researchers for not taking into consideration factors such as race, ethnicity, and culture in development of research paradigms. (NB)

Reviews recent literature on transcendent experience and its implications for psychologists whose clients have had transcendent experience and who need support in adjustment period. Reviews common characteristics of experience, incidence, catalysts, and relationship to mental health. Offers treatment guidelines for adjustment reactions and…

The author discusses trends for the future in employment, including (1) wealth creation versus job creation, (2) growth of human services, and (3) growth of entrepreneurship. He states that education for future employment should stress reading, relating, and reasoning. (CH)

Patients in an outpatient narcotic antagonist treatment program were followed through their course of treatment. Those who remained longer were found to enter treatment with more stable employment records and less recent opiate use. They also appeared more successful at termination, with better vocational stability, less extraneous drug use, and…