In order to provide information for those beginning a center, 253 centers were surveyed regarding five major aspects of crisis center operations: screening procedures for telephone listener-counselor applicants, training procedures, services offered, types of calls received, and financing. Resources for further information and for better…

The prospects for mental health in the schools are fraught with great difficulties, the child guidance or youth guidance team should be increased rather than diminished, and the team should include experts in the field of drug education, addiction and abuse. Presented at American School Health Association, San Diego, California, October 1972.…

After discharge from the hospital, many mental patients go back to the kind of environment that contributed to their breakdown. In the belief that new options should be available to mental patients when discharged, a hospital in New York City developed--with marked success--a plan for group living. (Author)

This paper is an examination of a model for the inservice training of elementary school teachers in health education. Presented before the Research Council at the forty-sixth annual convention of the American School Health Association in San Diego, California, 1972. (Author)

The school appears to be an ideal place for applying a preventive approach to mental health. The emerging role of the school counselor-consultant offers some hope for system-wide impact. Coordination with community mental health services would further strengthen the consultant's role in the school. (Author)

Author discusses one promising approach to gathering useful management information. (Author/CB)

The qualitative experience with one year's operation of this program is described and the psychiatric diagnostic scheme used is outlined in an appendix and table. (Authors/CB)

With a new dental health program the hard financial support should come from three main sources: a portion of the compulsory student health fee, fees for restorative Services rendered, plus budgetary funds from the particular college involved. (Author/CB)

How a program in family life fits in with the sponsoring community mental health center's treatment services and how the prevention program operates is discussed along with the philosophical foundations on which it is based. (Author)

An appreciation of the environmental, economic, and cultural stresses in black communities should lead community mental health programs to try to change adverse social conditions as well as treat the symptoms of ill health. (Author)

Study of nutrition program aides shows that most (1) see a need for family planning education among clientele, (2) strongly favor family planning and birth control, and (3) would be willing to teach homemakers about these subjects if they had training.'' (Author)

The author contends that while certain kinds of groups can made a beneficial contribution to the fulfilling of overall human growth potential, there are types of behavioral problems, of which marijuana usage is one, for which structural looseness could potentially undo the sincerest of therapeutic efforts. (Author)

Survey results indicate student desire to know more about alcohol and alcoholism, from reliable source. Roadblocks to implementation are community attitudes; lack of time, qualified teachers and materials; conflict over what should be taught, and how. (CJ)