Attempts to determine whether children at risk for schizophrenia manifest attentional impairments similar to those of adult schizophrenics. Surveys the performance of offspring of schizophrenic mothers relative to the performances of foster and community control samples on a battery of eight attention-demanding tasks. (Author/RK)

Presented four-hour multimedia workshop for 31 schizophrenic prison inmates to help them understand schizophrenia and its treatment. Comparison of pretest and posttest showed highly significant increase in knowledge about symptoms of schizophrenia, causes, and treatment. (Author)

Explores and advocates use of psychoeducational approaches to help rural mental health practitioners address counterproductive issues that inhibit effective therapeutic networking for schizophrenic clients. Details adapting psychoeducational programs for clients, families, and allied service providers in a rural setting. (NEC)

Students read Mark Vonnegut's "The Eden Express," an autobiographical account of a young man's schizophrenic breakdown, and wrote papers comparing how different perspectives, e.g., the biomedical and behavioral, would describe the cause and cure of Vonnegut's schizophrenia. Students liked the book and the assignment. (RM)

This presentation outlines the implications of psychiatric disability recovery for mental health systems and programs. Schizophrenia and other serious psychiatric disabilities have been viewed as irreversible illnesses with increasing disability over time. Mental health program planning, policies, and practices have been developed and implemented…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of competition on the level of schizophrenic thought disorder by having groups of schizophrenics perform a task under competitive and noncompetitive conditions. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate how two language variables--affective content and contextual constraint--might contribute to language disturbance in schizophrenia. (Author)

This experiment was a further test of the proposal that comparability in lifestyles exists between normal college males who have adopted closed and open styles of coping with aversive maternal control and the life-styles of process and reactive schizophrenics. (Author)

Desensitization or assertive training or both were applied to hospitalized schizophrenics who displayed phobias, lack of interpersonal assertiveness, or both. In none of the patients did desensitization produce any reduction of avoidance of the feared object. The assertive training produces minimal improvement in two patients. (Author)

Overweight patients on a token economy psychiatric ward were reinforced with tokens, off ward privileges and social approval for meeting a weight loss criterion of three pounds per week. The progress of two subjects, both chronic paranoid schizophrenics, is described. The procedure appears to be effective. (Author)

This study investigates schizophrenics' ability to utilize input organization and auditory cues for recall. The findings suggest that schizophrenics do utilize the cues of input organization and vocalization for recall, but the process of responding seems to engender excessive output interference which makes retrieval of late input items…