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Lurie, Abraham; Harold, Ron – 1967
Discharged adolescent schizophrenics (17) and their families participated in a pilot program of multiple group counseling, planned to help ex-patients reintegrate into the community. Patients were selected prior to discharge and randomly divided into three multiple-family groups. Each participating family had had a severe breakdown in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication Skills, Creative Activities, Discussion Groups
Leon, Loretta Tong – 1978
The paper describes the medical and education components of FIND (Florida Institute of Neuro-Dynamics), a private, nonprofit medical facility serving severely learning disabled, behaviorally disordered, autistic, and schizophrenic young adults. The program is reported to include a medical approach to etiology, with emphasis on allergy testing. The…
Descriptors: Allergy, Autism, Conceptual Schemes, Disabilities
Miller, Harold R.; And Others – 1962
In order to examine the effectiveness of a token economy program, sheltered workshop attendance of chronic schizophrenics was investigated under the following conditions: response cost versus no response cost consequences for nonattendance; response cost and noncontingent token payment; and restricted versus unrestricted mobility during the no…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Evaluation Methods
Watt, Norman F. – 1972
Investigators compared the emotional adjustment, intellectual functioning, scholastic performance, and social behavior of 54 children who became schizophrenic mental patients with that of 143 matched controls. The following conclusions were drawn: indications of potential schizophrenia include behavioral and emotional deviation in childhood, death…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances

Siegel, Bryna; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1986
A method for empirical classification of autistic and autisticlike children, based on behavior observations of 35 males and 11 females (ages 4-28 years) was examined. Factor and cluster analysis indicated four subtypes, characterized by perseverative thinking and play, motor disturbances, schizotypal/schizoid features, and anxiety and negativism.…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Autism, Behavior Rating Scales

Ciardiello, Jean A.; Bingham, William C. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1982
Examined dimensions of the schizophrenic process to determine how they interfere with vocational development. Explored ways that schizophrenia may be thwarting both individual career maturity and the efforts of rehabilitation programs. Offers programmatic suggestions to address these barriers to career maturity and successful vocational…
Descriptors: Career Development, Counselor Client Relationship, Educational Experience, Goal Orientation

Krynicki, Vitor E.; Nahas, Abbas D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1979
A neuropsychological assessment stressing lateralized perceptual-motor and cogntive abilities was administered in two groups of hospitalized psychiatric patients (8 to 17 years old), 25 schizophrenics, and 25 nonpsychotics. The results supported the hypothesis that there may be left hemisphere dysfunction in schizophrenia; however, no single…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Emotional Disturbances

Pomerantz, Phyllis; And Others – Child Welfare, 1990
Describes a home-based intervention program that provided time-intensive, supervised, paraprofessional services to a family in which parents and infant had serious disabilities. Programmatic needs and delivery of services to disabled parents and families are discussed. (NH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Child Welfare, Disabilities

Johnson, Dale L. – American Psychologist, 1989
The belief that schizophrenia is a brain disease is the consensus among families of persons with mental illness and is supported by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. This article summarizes implications for psychologists from the following standpoints: (1) etiology; (2) vulnerability; (3) treatment; (4) rehabilitation; (5) assessment;…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Psychology, Etiology, Family Role

Pruess, James B.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1989
Following a brief outline of vitamin therapy's effects on schizophrenia and learning disabilities, research is reviewed on vitamin therapy for children with Down's Syndrome, concluding with a discussion of critical responses to research endorsing vitamin therapy. It is concluded that vitamin therapy contributes nothing to the development of…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Downs Syndrome, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development

Singleton-Bowie, Sharron M. – Social Work Research, 1995
Client-case manager matches (n=75) from the outpatient services of an urban mental health department were selected to examine case managers' perceived racial sensitivity and its effect on African American clients. Findings demonstrated that case managers were more likely to be perceived as sensitive if they were a minority, female, and a degreed…
Descriptors: Blacks, Caseworker Approach, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics
Martin, G.; Costello, H.; Leese, M.; Slade, M.; Bouras, N.; Higgins, S.; Holt, G. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
Assertive community treatment (ACT) has been applied to a number of disorders in the adult population, such as schizophrenia, with some degree of success; its use in the treatment of people with intellectual disability (ID) and mental illness has received little attention. Despite the high costs of ID in health and social care, there has been very…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Quality of Life, Mental Disorders, Mental Retardation
fMRI Correlates of State and Trait Effects in Subjects at Genetically Enhanced Risk of Schizophrenia
Whalley, Heather C.; Simonotto, E.; Flett, S.; Marshal, I.; Ebmeier, K. P.; Owens, D. G. C.; Goddard, N. H.; Johnstone, E. C.; Lawrie, S. M. – Brain, 2004
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder that typically develops in early adult life. Structural imaging studies have indicated that patients with the illness, and to some extent their unaffected relatives, have subtle deficits in several brain regions, including prefrontal and temporal lobes. It is, however, not known how this inherited…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Genetics, Correlation, Heredity
Davis, Louanne W.; Lysaker, Paul H. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2005
While much attention has been paid to how CBT can address symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, less is known about how it might be applied to target psychosocial dysfunction. This case study describes the treatment of a man with schizophrenia over a 6-month period using the Indianapolis Vocational Intervention Protocol (IVIP). The IVIP…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Cognitive Restructuring, Adolescents, Metacognition
Greenday, Laura A.; Bennett, Clinton W. – 1986
The study evaluated the effects of an auditory monitoring and feedback approach on an adolescent boy's schizophrenic language patterns. The approach attempted to increase the subject's auditory awareness and to train him to identify and correct the linguistic errors of others and, eventually, of himself. Language samples were analyzed at baseline…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Training, Case Studies, Communication Skills