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COFFEY, HUBERT S.; WIENER, LOUISE L. – 1967
AT THE EAST BAY ACTIVITY CENTER IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, TREATMENT INVOLVED THE MIXING OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN WITH LESS SEVERELY DISTURBED CHILDREN. NON-AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN THE GROUP WERE EXPECTED TO ACT AS CATALYSTS BY TRYING TO FORM SOME TYPE OF SOCIALLY MATURE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AUTISTIC CHILDREN WHILE THE THERAPIST ENCOURAGED INTERACTION.…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior, Case Studies, Children
Foulks, Edward F. – 1975
The relationship between schizophrenia and social change is examined through a review of recent medical research in genetics, biology, and epidemiology. Those mental traits that today in our society characterize the schizoprenic, in a previous era or in another society may have provided a mechanism for cultural change during the periods of stress…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Change Agents, Culture Conflict, Literature Reviews
Solso, Robert L. , Ed. – 1973
Contributions in the first section of this volume are: "Learning to Identify Toy Block Structures" by Patrick Winston; "Beyond the Yellow-Volkswagen Detector and the Grandmother Cell: A General Strategy for the Exploration of Operations in Human Pattern Recognition" by Naomi Weisstein; "Visual Recognition in a Theory of Information Processing" by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Information Processing
Mosher, Loren R.; And Others – 1972
An experimental two-year treatment project designed to help the acute schizophrenic emerge from psychosis a stronger, better integrated person is underway at Soteria House, a comfortable 16-room house in the San Francisco Bay area. The project will compare the effects of treatment in this special facility with those of "usual" treatment in a…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Crisis Intervention, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Disorders
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Watt, Norman F.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1982
Classroom teachers rated school behavior of 44 children, aged 12-17, of schizophrenic parents and 70 children of normal parents. Results showed children of schizophrenic parents had greater interpersonal disharmony, less scholastic motivation, more emotional instability, and lower intelligence than control children, but differences in introversion…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances, High School Students, Intelligence Differences
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Ran, Mao-Sheng; Xiang, Meng-Ze; Mao, Wen-Jun; Hou, Zai-Jin; Tang, Mu-Ni; Chen, Eric Yu-Hai; Chan, Cecilia Lai-Wan; Yip, Paul S. F.; Conwell, Yeates – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006
In this study, demographic and clinical characteristics of individuals with schizophrenia in a Chinese rural community who had attempted suicide at some time in their lives and those who had not made a suicide attempt were compared. Among individuals with schizophrenia, subjects with (n = 38) and without (n = 472) a lifetime history of suicide…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Suicide, Schizophrenia, Rural Areas
Williams, Carolyn L. – 1987
Refugee movements impose tremendous psychological and physical trauma on survivors, making refugees a high risk group for psychopathology and psychosocial adjustment problems. This paper explores the traditional impediments to developing prevention programs for refugees and describes public mental health strategies that could be used for different…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anxiety, Crisis Intervention, Depression (Psychology)
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Shapiro, Theodore; And Others – Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 1974
A schizophrenic boy was studied longitudinally with regard to language behavior and hierarchic integration during 13 10-minute interviews, at 3-month intervals commencing at age 3 1/2 years and ending at 7 years of age. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cognitive Development, Young Children, Emotional Disturbances
Bradfield, Robert H., Ed. – 1970
To present the ideas and research of outstanding behaviorists which is directly related to the education of children, the authors tried to include a diverse group of educational situations. Two articles give an overview of behavior modification, while five educational applications are discussed. They concern learning problems, language…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research
Mendelsohn, Mark; Linden, James – 1971
The development of an objective diagnostic scale to measure atypical behavior is discussed. The Atypical Response Scale (ARS) is a structured projective test consisting of 17 items, each weighted 1, 2, or 3, that were tested for convergence and reliability. ARS may be individually or group administered in 10-15 minutes; hand scoring requires 90…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Diagnostic Tests
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Frankel, Fred; Simmons, James Q., III – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
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Walker, Elaine; Emory, Eugene – Child Development, 1983
Findings indicate that high-risk infants are not exposed to greater exogenous stress during the prenatal and perinatal periods, although subsequent caregiving provided by disturbed mothers may not be optimal. Several findings point to the existence of a constitutionally vulnerable subgroup of high-risk infants. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Birth Weight, High Risk Persons, Infant Mortality, Infants
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McDaniel, William F.; Passmore, Corie E.; Sewell, Hollie M. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2003
A study involving 58 adults with mental retardation and mental disorders found few correlations between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Assessment of Dual Diagnosis (ADD). The major exception was the Mania scale of the MMPI, which correlated moderately well with the ADD Schizophrenia and Dementia scales. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Rating Scales, Diagnostic Tests, Disability Identification
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Ghaziuddin, Mohammad – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2002
This article explores the association of medical and psychiatric conditions with Asperger syndrome, based mainly on publications from the last two decades. It examines comorbidity of Asperger syndrome with mood disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, tic disorders, violence and aggression,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Asperger Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders
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Strauman, Timothy J.; Wetzler, Scott – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1992
Scale-level factor analyses are reported for 2 self-report measures of psychopathology, the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90) and the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), using 130 psychiatric inpatients and outpatients. Used separately, the measures offer limited interpretability of scale profiles. Their combined use permits differentiation…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Testing
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