Results showed that clients demonstrate the most appropriate behavior when staff receive feedback concerning their use of behavior modification techniques. Staff did not require the typical daily supervision but only random monitoring in their use of these techniques. (Author)

The adaptation of patient simulators for teaching pharmacy students medication history interviewing is described. This experiential approach to interviewing provides the opportunity for a supervised experience of patient interviewing in a realistic setting with immediate feedback on interviewing technique available to the student. (Author/MLW)

Explores centrality of the mourning process in the education of developing health care professionals who are the survivors of complex and manifold losses, in an elective seminar for senior medical students and graduate nurses. (Author)

Female staff members and residents of residential drug treatment programs had more liberal attitudes toward women than male staff members and residents. Female residents in both programs had nearly identical scores on the Attitudes toward Women Scale. (Author/JAC)

A study of depressed patients showed either cognitive or behavioral treatment can effectively alleviate the depressed condition by a short-term approach. A cognitive approach was more effective in decreasing depression and maintaining this effect. A strong inverse correlation between self-concept and depression after treatment was demonstrated.…

Most counselors are employees of institutions and agencies rather than private practitioners. A dual, sometimes conflicting, allegiance to the employer and to the client has been an issue. Surveys the literature in an attempt to discover the nature of the direction available to counselors as they deal with conflicting loyalties. (Author)

Problems associated with prescription drug use and misuse are discussed. The role of the pharmacist in providing information that patients need to use drugs appropriately is emphasized. (SFJ)

Twenty-five Indian patients at a Public Health Service clinic indicated that inadequate communication influenced by age, English fluency, and cultural differences contributed to abuses in the health care system. Journal availability: see RC 503 481. (DS)

Proactive counselor intervention requires recognition of the pattern of client requests for service. Five midwestern university counseling centers supplied usage data on client contacts. Counselors accurately reported the pattern but based it on perception of total contacts rather than initial contacts. (Author)

Teams of students, teachers, administrators, and others from school districts received training to carry out drug education programs in their home school districts. There was a moderate relationship between socioeconomic status of a school district and implementation of drug education programs by its team. (Author)

To provide objective evaluation of students' physical diaonosis skills, nonphysician patient instructors (PIs) with stable positive findings were trained by physicians to function in the multiple roles of patient, teacher, and evaluator. Medical students examine the PIs and are evaluated by them on their technique and diagnosis ability.…

Analysis of correlations between Verbal and Full Scale IQ scores for 231 high-IQ psychiatric outpatients indicated that Verbal IQ appears partially valid as a WAIS short form for this higher IQ group. Results are interpreted in terms of Resnick and Entin's short form validity criteria. (Editor/SJL)

Two theories of hospital liability--respondeat superior and corporate negligence and the legal intricacies of the physician-hospital-patient relationship--that affect hospital liability are examined. The impact of Darling vs Charleston Memorial Hospital as a medicolegal precedent is emphasized. (BH)

An attempt was made to delineate the degree to which distortions in the perception of depression were related to the severity level of the patient's depression and the degree to which denial was utilized as a coping mechanism. (Author)

This commentary reviews the history and ideology of nondisclosure, considers the realities of modern treatment and record-keeping, and describes the contemporary legal dilemma in this context. Model legislation is proposed to provide patients a property right of direct access to their records. (LBH)