Kenneth Keniston

Multiple criteria of treatment outcome

Abstract The interrelations of a variety of outcome measures are reported for a series of 65 consecutive admissions to a milieu therapy inpatient psychiatric unit. Correlations between various outcome variables were found to be suprisingly low, except when the variables were derived from the same time and the same evaluator-patient relationship. Findings were interpreted as reflecting the fact that no single criterion of ‘outcome’ is sufficient, and that a more differentiated view of the impact of treatments must be considered.

Moral Development, Youthful Activism and Modern Society

In that uncharted stage of life ~in which many college and graduate students find themselves, moral development plays a central role. Almost every novel, research study, biography or autobiography that deals with the university student or drop-out, with student movements in the past or with today’s student hippies and radicals, touches upon the issue of morality, emphasizing the conflicts between youth’s personal morality (or immorality) and the immoral (or moral) practices of the surrounding world. In any era, most popular discussions of youth fall on a spectrum that starts with an exclusive focus on the idealism of youth and extends to an exclusive emphasis on youth’s promiscuity, wantonness, and immorality. In our own era, one of the major challenges presented by

Notes on Young Radicals

In the summer of 1967, 1 studied a small group of anti-war radical student leaders. The study, clinical and exploratory, was published in May 1968. Even by that time, the radical scene had changed so drastically that many of my comments were already outdated. Now, two years later, still more needs to be said about the changes of the last two years, about how they alter earlier generalizations about the psychosocial origins of student radicalism, and about the lessons to be learned from recent studies of

Selected References on Student Protest

a study of student activists,&dquo; in Foster and Long (G 1970). Barton, A. H. (1968). &dquo;The Columbia crisis: campus, Vietnam and the ghetto,&dquo; Public Opinion Quarterly (Fall), 32:333-352. Block, J. H. (1968). &dquo;Rebellion reexamined : the role of identification and alienation,&dquo; paper given at Foundations’ Fund for Research in Psychiatry Conference &dquo;Adaptation to Change,&dquo; Puerto Rico, June.