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Worland, Julien; And Others – 1981
Retrospective studies of the intellectual performances of children who later became psychotic adults have yielded evidence of early interference in the development of intelligence in future schizophrenics. The intellectual assessments of 153 children were examined during two test periods in the St. Louis Risk Research Project. In 1967-1972, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Children, Cohort Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Brooks, George W.; Weaver, Lelon A., Jr. – 1966
A battery of four psychomotor tests was developed and evaluated as a measure of the potential of mental patients of varying diagnoses for rehabilitation training. The tests were to be suitable for administration and interpretation by non-professional level technicians. The relationship between performance on the 5 days of tests and patient outcome…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Rosenberg, Sheldon, Ed.; Koplin, James H., Ed. – 1968
The eight articles in this volume reflect the increased tendency in recent years to consider problems of language acquisition and language pathology in the context of basic research and theory. They also reflect the two major approaches to language development: the transformational-linguistic approach which puts its emphasis on an innate…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Handicapped Children
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Quinn, Sheila O'Brien – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2005
Using the story of death row inmate Charles Singleton, who developed paranoid schizophrenia while in prison awaiting execution, this case study explores the relationship between a society's concept of mental illness and its treatment of people who are mentally ill. Students are asked to identify the model of mental illness assumed by each of the…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Medical Services, Clinical Diagnosis, Institutionalized Persons
Angermeyer, Matthias C.; And Others – 1980
Sixty half-hour family discussions generated by the "revealed differences technique" were analyzed to determine the emotional intensity and quality (friendliness/attacking) of messages between individuals in families with schizophrenic and "normal" sons. Thirty families in each situation (schizophrenic/normal) were matched for comparison. Both…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
Sanua, Victor D. – 1979
The paper analyzes research regarding the effects of sociocultural factors and the incidence of mental illness, particularly infantile autism and childhood schizophrenia. Among those topics reviewed are general sociocultural changes and vital statistics, perceptual and cognitive potential of the neonate, the importance of family networks for…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Autism, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Corfman, Eunice, Ed. – 1979
Science Monographs, published by the National Institute of Mental Health, are book-length, integrative state-of-the-art reviews, critical evaluations of findings, or program assessments of current research on topics related to the NIMH mandate. This set of articles concentrate on mental illness in the family. "Depression and Low-Income,…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Autism, Depression (Psychology), Developmental Disabilities
Bryson, Carolyn Q.; Hingtgen, Joseph N. – 1972
The annotated bibliography on early childhood psychosis (infantile autism, childhood schizophrenia, and related disorders) contains 424 entries (books, journal articles, conference and research reports) dating from 1964 through the first 6 months of 1970, which pertain to theory, research, and treatment. Number of entries for each subject is noted…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Emotional Disturbances
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Pettit, Karen A. – Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 1987
A retrospective study compared hours spent by a schizophrenic adolescent in "time out" before and after initiation of treatment. The study evaluated the effects of sensory integrative treatment on the ability to handle anger and frustration. Results demonstrate the utility of statistical analysis versus visual comparison to validate effectiveness…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Aggression, Anger
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Wolf, Abraham W.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Examined the frequency and associations of multiple diagnoses in 205 psychiatric inpatients, assessing past and current episodes of illness. Over one-half of the sample received more than one diagnosis. Alcoholism, antisocial personality, and drug dependence formed one group; primary depression, primary mania, and secondary affective disorder,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Alcohol Abuse, Antisocial Behavior, Classification
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Balogh, Robert S.; Hunter, Duncan; Ouellette-Kuntz, Helene – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2005
Background: It has been suggested that persons with an intellectual disability consume a disproportionate amount of hospital services. Policy changes in Ontario in the 1970s and 1980s made it necessary for community health services to accommodate this population that formerly received most of its medical care in the institutions where they lived.…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Community Health Services, Mental Retardation, Schizophrenia
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Cowley, Amy; Newton, Jonathan; Sturmey, Peter; Bouras, Nick; Holt, Geraldine – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2005
Information on admission to psychiatric inpatient units is lacking from the literature on contemporary services for people with intellectual disability and mental health needs. Here we report on predictors of admission for a cohort of 752 adults from this population living in community settings; 83 were admitted. We also report on two subsamples…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Schizophrenia, Health Needs, Mental Retardation
Ellis, Mickie – 1990
The manual is intended to provide preschool educators who work with exceptional children with both theoretical background and practical guidance in teaching children with attentional deficit disorders, oppositional disorders, conduct disorders, autism, developmental learning disorders, childhood depression, borderline personality disorders, and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism, Behavior Disorders, Child Development
Goodman, Sherryl H. – 1987
The vulnerability of children to developmental problems was studied in three groups of young children: (1) children with schizophrenic mothers (N=35); (2) children with severely depressed mothers (N=19); and children with well mothers (N=21). The children ranged in age from birth to 5 years, with 64 percent under age 2, and came from families who…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Black Mothers, Black Youth, Developmental Disabilities
Klein, Myra; Sobkowski, Shawn – 1981
A study examined the reliability and predictive validity of a number of measures designed for the vocational assessment of schizophrenic persons. Also examined in the longitudinal study were the relationships of these measures to each other and to employment status. Eighty-nine of the subjects who had participated in an earlier vocational…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Development, Demography, Employment Level
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