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Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Appalachian Center. – 1989
Problems of access to health care facing Appalachia mountain communities are confounded by unemployment, poverty, low education, and local religious beliefs that barrier people from receiving medical care. This proceedings addresses the issues related to health access and health needs. It contains 20 papers and 12 synopses of presentation. The…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Health Behavior, Health Needs, Health Programs
Holden, E. Wayne; Osher, Trina W.; Santiago, Rolando L.; Hernandez, Mario; Brannan, Ana Maria – 2000
This brief paper summarizes three papers and a response presented at a symposium examining longitudinal comparison studies of federally funded community mental health services (CMHS) for children and their families. Emphasis was on comparing the system of care approach to a more traditional approach. The symposium provided an update on the status…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Emotional Disturbances
Wattenberg, Esther, Ed. – 2000
This paper summarizes the proceedings of a 1999 symposium on mental health in infants and toddlers, particularly the role of attachment, held at the University of Minnesota. Presentations by Kathryn Barnard of the University of Washington and Anne Gearity of the University of Minnesota are included. Following an introduction and conference…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Child Welfare
Taylor, William J., Ed. – 1980
Current mental health services for Indian people living on and off the reservation are described for individuals interested in expanding or delivering mental health services to Indian people or in the state of the art. The conference held in July 1979 was established for the purpose of sharing information about successful mental health programs.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems, Mental Health Programs
Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, New York, NY. – 2000
These proceedings from a conference on the health needs of Asian and Pacific American (APA) children include discussions and recommendations from each breakout session. The breakout sessions focused on trends and services; K-12 education; health and mental health; child abuse and neglect services; bias crime and violence; and poverty and welfare…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
Massey, Oliver T.; Telleen, Sharon; Kim, Young O. Rhee; Stewart-Nava, Helen; Maher, Susan; Boroughs, Michael; Henson, Kelli S.; Armstrong, Kathleen H.; Santoro, Gina; Perry, Angela – 2002
This document is comprised of summaries of six papers presented at a symposium on the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, a federal grant to school districts intended to promote health and safety in schools and communities. The Initiative was designed to confront school violence, safety, and mental health needs through the provision of a…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Grants, Intervention, Longitudinal Studies
Barrineau, Irene T., Ed. – Association for Continuing Higher Education, 2007
The 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association for Continuing Higher Education was themed "Refining Our Mission: Continuing Education's Role in Engagement, Outreach and Public Service." Opportunities were available to participate in sessions relating to outreach, partnerships and public service and perspectives on this theme were presented…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Higher Education, Human Capital, Health Education
Itin, Christian M., Ed. – 1998
This proceedings contains selected papers from the first International Adventure Therapy Conference. The papers reflect a wide range of ideas about what constitutes adventure therapy and how it should be conducted. Presenting an array of international perspectives, programs, and practices, the papers expand the current literature, which has come…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventure Education, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories
Perlman, Leonard G., Ed.; Hansen, Carl E., Ed. – 1988
The focus of the six seminar papers is on the rehabilitation needs of persons with long-term mental illness, followed by excerpts of reviews and comments, as well as summary recommendations. "Rehabilitation Programs in the 1980s: Laying the Groundwork for the 1990s" (William Anthony) notes that deinstitutionalization is a historical fact…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Consumer Protection
McGuire, Thomas G., Ed.; Weisbrod, Burton A., Ed. – 1981
The papers in this volume are revisions of those presented at the Conference on Economics and Mental Health. The purposes of these papers and the conference at which they were discussed were to identify issues to facilitate wise public decision-making about mental health care, to assess the current state of knowledge, and to suggest directions for…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Decision Making, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Ferman, Louis A., Ed.; Gordus, Jeanne P., Ed. – 1979
This volume offers a collection of papers which explores the relationships between major economic changes and individual and collective mental and physical well-being, including individual distress, deviant behavior, and other symptoms of underlying pathology. The contributors examine the processes leading from macroeconomic change to social and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Change, Economic Change, Economics
Stroul, Beth A. – 1990
Proceedings are presented from a meeting designed to encourage and assist university-based researchers and public policy-makers in the formation of meaningful, long-term collaborations that would ultimately increase chances of competing successfully for research grants on the efficacy of services and systems of care for children and adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Delivery Systems, Emotional Disturbances
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Feldman, Saul, Ed. – Administration in Mental Health, 1982
Summarizes conference proceedings and provides an overview of the nature and key issues of cut-back management in community mental health services. Discusses leadership and management, leadership strategies and values, the management of organizational resource reduction applied to human services, the process of reorganization, and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administration, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies
Cohen, Lucy M., Ed.; Grossnickle, Mary Ann, Ed. – 1983
The conference upon which these proceedings are based was held to draw together scholars, public officials, and representatives of private agencies in order to explore priority issues in research and training for professionals who work with new immigrants and refugees. Following a preface, which outlines the themes addressed by conference…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anthropology, Artists, Females
Center for Informative Evaluation, Tucson, AZ. – 1981
To facilitate awareness in Indian child services by identifying perennial needs and pointing out developing responses at as many levels as possible the conference was divided into five major sections. Each workshop summary includes names of presenters, purpose of workshop, major points made during workshop, and available materials and human…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indian Education, Child Welfare, Children
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