ABSTRACT
This reprinted article originally appeared in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1981, Vol. 51, No. 3, 391-402. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2013-42918-004.) This article focuses on reflections on mental health in the United States. This accumulation of wisdom and knowledge from experts inside and outside government has for the most part been ignored or shelved over the years because of revisions, deferrals, impoundments, vetoes, threatened vetoes, reorganizations, budget cuts, inflation, and military demands. Programs such as Head Start, which have been proven successful, have been fighting for survival, and community mental health centers, which in many ways represented a bold, new approach with much creative promise, were threatened with the loss of federal funding in the early 1970s. The humanist tradition in mental health and social services is best exemplified by Pinel's unchaining of psychotic patients: Itards infinite patience in working with Victor, the wild child: and Jane Addams's extraordinary development of community programs. On an international level a recent report of the WHO European Regional Office also has called for a wide ranging, independent group that would cut across national governments and exercise influence at high political levels to insure that important mental health policies are implemented. Perhaps the day will even come when an American President will feel responsible and accountable to the nation in an annual report to Congress and the people on the progress made in health and social welfare areas in his or her administration.
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Insurance, Health/legislation & jurisprudence , Mental Health Services/legislation & jurisprudence , Politics , History, 20th Century , Humans , Insurance, Health/history , Insurance, Health/standards , Mental Health Services/history , Mental Health Services/standards , United StatesABSTRACT
This reprinted article originally appeared in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1979, Vol. 49, No. 2, 240-245. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2013-43131-006.) The fourth follow-up study of adolescent delinquent boys treated in a community-based program that combined job placement, remedial education, and psychotherapy indicates that the better overall adjustment of the treated group, compared to untreated controls, is maintained well into adulthood. It reaffirms the importance of developing sound, innovative means of reaching adolescents in crisis, and suggests the value of a fullscale replication of the original program.
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Normal mothers of nine-month-olds generally perceived their infants' behavior accurately. However, where maternal perceptual distortions did occur, they were associated with less maternal responsiveness and greater interference. These correlated with the mothers' anxiety level and with infant sleep problems. Maternal expectations thus seemed to be translated into specific maternal behavior which may be of significance in the child's psychosocial adjustment.
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Attitude , Child Behavior , Mother-Child Relations , Adult , Anxiety/psychology , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Maternal Behavior , Psychological Tests , Set, PsychologySubject(s)
Mental Health , Adult , Child , Community Mental Health Services , Humanism , Humans , Leadership , Politics , Public Policy , Self-Help Groups , United States , World Health OrganizationABSTRACT
The fourth follow-up study of adolescent delinquent boys treated in a community-based program that combined job placement, remedial education, and psychotherapy indicates that the better overall adjustment of the treated group, compared to untreated controls, is maintained well into adulthood. It reaffirms the importance of developing sound, innovative means of reaching adolescents in crisis, and suggests the value of a full-scale replication of the original program.
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Juvenile Delinquency/rehabilitation , Psychotherapy/methods , Rehabilitation, Vocational/psychology , Adolescent , Adult , Employment , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Juvenile Delinquency/psychology , Male , Marriage , Social AdjustmentABSTRACT
Preadolescent girls in a bicultural school, compared with those in a monocultural school, showed more heterocultural peer-group organization, better self-image, and greater acceptance of an unknown cultural group. These differences were not found among younger (latency-age) children in the two schools. No significant differences were found in role-taking ability between girls in the two schools, suggesting that the bicultural school environment contributes to the difference in the other personality dimensions studied.
