Milton F. Shore

Fifteen years after treatment: a follow-up study of comprehensive vocationally-oriented psychotherapy.

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.

The practice of mental health consultation

What do you do to start reading practice of mental health consultation? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. Its not fault. Someone will be bored to open the thick book with small words to read. In more, this is the real condition. So do happen probably with this practice of mental health consultation.

Runaway Children Twelve Years Later A Follow-Up

THIS is a 12-year follow-up pilot study of 14 youths who ran away from home in the mid-1960s. The study is based on 44 intensive interviews with the former runaways, their nonrunaway siblings, their parents, and other relatives. Four major questions were addressed. Marked differences in outcomes were found (a) between runaways and their siblings; (b) between runaway repeaters and nonrepeaters, and (c) between runaways from working-class backgrounds and those from middle-class backgrounds. In general, whatever their other statuses, children who ran away more than once showed increasing personal and social dysfunction as young adults.

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER TREATMENT

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.

Problems of ethics in community mental health: A survey of community psychologists

Psychologists in community mental health were surveyed to ascertain new ethical problems arising from their community activity. They were also asked what could be done about making psychologists more aware of these issues. Consultation, competence, confidentiality, and professional versus citizens role were the important areas. Suggestions were made for early ethics education with examples in ethics handbooks of community activities.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEVELS OF GUILT IN THEMATIC STORIES AND UNSOCIALIZED BEHAVIOR.

Abstract Many previous studies on the relationship between inhibition of expression of hostility in thematic stories have focused on the severity of the punishment rather than the quality of the guilt expressed. Using a more subtle approach, it was found that an increase in the level and quality of guilt expressed in TAT stories was significantly associated with a reduction in unsocialized behavior. The results suggest that an analysis of guilt along dimensions of internalization, the concern for others, and the desire to change offers a way of dealing with thematic productions that is more consistent with our clinical observations and understanding.

Halfway house and family involvement as related to community adjustment for ex-residents of a psychiatric halfway house.

What variables are highly correlated with successful community adjustment? A group of ex-patients who left a halfway house to return to the community were interviewed around their active involvement and perceived support from the staff members of the halfway house, while living on their own or with their families. There was a highly positive relationship between continuing contact with the halfway house and the level of adjustment in the community. The implications for understanding the nature, continuity, and purpose of social supports for this group are discussed.

MARKING TIME IN THE LAND OF PLENTY: Reflections on Mental Health in the United States

: 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 Pinels unchaining of psychotic patients: Itards infinite patience in working with Victor, the wild child: and Jane Addamss 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.

Contacting pregnant adolescents: are we missing cues?

Prenatal reluctance of pregnant adolescents to engage in a mental health services program often dissipates after birth occurs if the reluctance is understood, outreach is sustained, and intervention is tailored to clients. Methods of engaging women in such a program are described.

Some Effects of Bicultural and Monocultural School Environments on Personality Development.

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.