Describes postvention as dealing with traumatic aftereffects in survivors of traumas. Defines role of school in providing such postvention services as consultation, crisis intervention, community linkage, assessment and counseling, education, liaison with media, and follow-up. Provides outline of this type of prevention with illustrations from…

Reviews the historical background, standards, the issue of day treatment versus day care, functional issues, specialization, efficacy and cost effectiveness, utilization issues, and alternative models of care of partial hospitalization programs in North America. Emphasizes issues of relevance when planning alternative programs to inpatient…

Canada's deinstitutionalization and decentralization of mental health services has confronted communities with many problems. Families of the mentally ill are being required to do major caregiving without being provided with the necessary resources, as this case study illustrates. Counselors and health care professionals involved with families…

Conclusions were that: (1) meanings of mental health constructs cluster differently depending on the analysis; (2) happiness may be considered the most apposite representative of the mental health constructs employed by gerontologists; and (3) contemporary models of happiness favor neither the expansionist nor contractionist positions as a means…