Maintains that medical students should learn more about psychology. Briefly describes why medical students have not learned more about psychology, discusses the aspects of psychology most relevant to the needs of medical students, and suggests teaching formats to accomplish this goal. (JR)

New Zealand's health and education programs for children ages 0 through 8 are described. (SB)

It is suggested that a time may well come when minority clients receive equal but unresponsive services and that primary attention should be placed upon the delivery of responsive services rather than upon the demonstration of inequities. (Author/AM)

Considers the double barriers obstructing the delivery of mental health service to the working class--the stigma of mental illness and the lack of referral channels--and how the social worker-trainer's role can help develop preventive mental care for the working man. (Author/RK)

The single most important contribution our society can make to the mental health of children is to recognize that they are a vital national resource. Describes a mental health plan with two objectives: 1) providing for the basic physical, social and educational needs of children, and 2) bringing mental health services to all children. (Author/RK)

Offers mental health administrators indicators for directing scarce resources to priority populations, including density, service utilization rate, and service intensity. Provides examples of the importance of using multiple indicators in community mental health center administrative decision-making. (Author/ABB)

Administered Mental Health Servicves Questionnaire to 100 older and 100 middle-aged adults. Found that age groups did not differ in how they defined serious psychological problems. Both age groups equally identified professional mental health services as appropriate for helping individuals with psychological problems. Although age did not affect…

Details a demonstration project which was developed to train older adult volunteers as mental health paraprofessionals for nursing homes. Discusses the effectiveness of the program for residents, as well as benefits to the staff. Includes details of recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers, services they provide, and problems…

Describes ways in which parents and professionals are working together to ensure that goals related to family support are translated into policies, programs, and services in the care system for children and youth with serious emotional disorders. Features a parent organizing project in Wisconsin. (RJC)

Asserts that mental health planning has been limited by conceptual and logistical restraints, causing planning to be isolated from management and ineffectual in describing total system of services required by persons experiencing severe mental illness. Describes application of new ideas and information technologies which can yield enhanced…

Presents summaries of four group discussions on topics raised by Broskowski's paper "Critical Issue Paper 1: Goldfields and Minefields: Changing Management Technologies and Resources." Outlines ideas and recommendations that arose as common themes from the discussions in these areas: preprofessional training, inservice training needs, technical…

Discusses these trends in mental health services: cost control and financial retrenchment, policy influence and funding, shift of long-term care responsibility, expansion of private health care market interest, and change in characteristics of mentally ill. Recommends information enhancements, market potentials, alternative organizational…

Presents overall summary of the 1986 State-of-the-Art Symposium on Mental Health Administration whose papers and summaries of group discussions are presented previously in this journal. Presents list of 10 topics in contemporary mental health administration which were highlighted. Lists five recommendations made by conferees related to research,…

Discusses the absence of national standards which are uniformly applicable to health, safety, sanitation, and nutrition aspects of child care programs. Explains the responsive collaborative project of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Public Health Association to develop national reference standards for out-of-home child care…