This first Report of the Surgeon General on Mental Health represents the initial step in advancing the notion that mental health is fundamental to general health. It states that a review of research on mental health revealed two findings. First, the efficacy of treatment is well documented, and second, a range of treatment exists for most mental…

This report compares the research methods, provider and patient characteristics, and outcome results from four large-scale followup studies of drug treatment during the 1990s: (1) the California Drug and Alcohol Treatment Assessment (CALDATA); (2) Services Research Outcomes Study (SROS); (3) National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study (NTIES);…

Female department store workers evaluated a female confederate unfavorably when she was tense, but that she had been mentally ill made no difference to them. Male hospital employees rejected a male confederate both when he was tense and when he had a history of mental illness. Thus, either the sex of the subjects or of the patient (or both) seems…

Repeated ratings of therapeutic facilitativeness in each recorded session revealed (a) that while high and low-facilitative therapists generally tended to function at high and low levels, respectively, both groups were variable in their functioning across sessions and particularly within sessions with their patients; and (b) that therapeutic…

Students viewed three films to determine if (a) authoritarian clients would dislike psychotherapy more than nonauthoritarian clients, and (b) authoritarian clients would prefer a directive therapist whereas nonauthoritarian clients would prefer a nondirective therapist. The results did not support the first hypothesis, but they significantly…

This study compared more than 3400 MMPIs obtained from pschiatric in-patients in public mental health facilities with mental status and preadmission descriptor ratings to derive empirical correlates of profiles clustered primarily by two-point high codes. (Author)

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)

Based on the premise that the quality of care in an institution is directly related to the quality of its education program, the authors describe the in-house Ohio State Regional Medical Program. (Author/LF)

The community, state mental hospitals, and a community mental health center work together to provide an environment conducive to the continued well being of chronic mental patients in an area of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The authors describe a program that involves day care centers and the patients' everyday living. (Author)

Delivered at meeting of Council of Academic Societies, Chicago, Illinois, February, 1970. (IR)

Combined approach to obstetric and newborn care provides better learning experience to staff physicians, continuity of patient care, and closer inter-departmental cooperation. (Editor/IR)

The fundamental stages in the changes physicians make in their treatment of patients were identified as priming (coming to feel dissatisfaction with some aspect of practice behavior), focusing (learning of alternative practice behavior), and follow-up (obtaining further information). A model for continuing medical education is provided.…

Examined whether sex-role stereotypes would affect nurses' (N=32) attitudes toward simulations of male and female patients. Emotional style and patients' diagnosis were manipulated. Results showed significant sex-role differences and stereotypical attitudes. Male patients were rated more positively, and were more likely to possess traditional male…