This paper reports on the University of South Carolina School-Based Mental Health Project, a program which provides mental health services within a public school setting in an effort to maximize the preventive and educational effects of mental health services within schools. The project is also developing a model to serve as a foundation for a…

The focus of this training is on understanding ways to design and implement an overall mental health strategy in your program. The authors are not going to talk about specific intervention strategies, such as how to deal with challenging behavior in the classroom, or how to identify and screen children with possible mental health issues. Instead,…

This investigation is a follow-up of the subsequent psychiatric histories of children who did or did not participate in a preventively oriented school mental health program. Early detected vulnerable children were found to have disproportionately high later appearances in a community-wide psychiatric register. Retrospective analyses of the…

Critically examines the efficacy, training, and administration of research in terms of meeting the goal of children's mental health; the emphasis is on rationally analyzing our empirical enterprise as it applies to practical payoff, especially mental health. (Author/JM)

Describes a mental health program that makes use of teacher-taught materials that do not require extensive preparation by the teachers involved. The program attempts to alter personality through the use of techniques that promote education in mental health and experimentation with group and individual behavior. (Author)

Effectiveness Training Programs are offering parents, teachers, counselors and administrators a new philosophy of dealing with children and youth, and of working with each other. These courses hold out a challenge to persons who have an interest in humanizing our families and schools. (Author)

Discusses the new directions in health care delivery systems, health manpower, and health service as they relate to the development of young students and their school health needs. (Author/RK)

Discusses future and present congressional health care programs. (PG)

Digest of papers of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatry Association (San Francisco, California, March 23-26, 1970). (RD)

The author urges wider use of positive reinforcement theories in helping emotionally disturbed and mentally handicapped children. Underlining the influence of environment on behavior, he also notes that behavior modification programs utilize fewer trained personnel more effectively and, like Tennessee's Re-Education Treatment, allow for therapy in…

Reports on the use of applied behavioral science techniques to develop a performance appraisal instrument and system in a mental health organization. The system integrates individual, professional, and institutional values into an overall framework including parts of the organization in conflict. (Author/WAS)

Behavioral, educational, and organizational methods for improving the degree to which workers comply with the objectives of industrial health promotion programs are discussed. Compliance can be enhanced through: (1) better program location and scheduling; (2) increased worker satisfaction; (3) use of psychological and educational techniques; and…