The author assesses F. Seidl's analysis (see EC 070 419) of the trend toward community oriented residential institutions as having positive implications for child care personnel. (GW)

Families of nursing home residents often perceive the care provided by the nursing home staff to be inadequate or inappropriate. Consequently, conflicts and misunderstandings frequently arise between staff and family members. A study was conducted in two midwestern nursing homes which investigated the perceptions of family and staff about the care…

Since nursing home placement is frequently the last choice for families of elderly people who need long-term care, little literature exists which delineates a model for consumer decision making in the selection of a specific long-term care facility. Critical issues include the following: (1) who actually makes the selection; (2) what other…

A widespread bias exists among legal, medical, and social service professionals that the appropriate placement for elderly individuals with cognitive impairment (dementia) is a nursing home. Two major reasons for institutionalization are to remove the patient from a potentially harmful situation and to relieve the family of the burden of care.…

Of general interest in this study comparing two cottage-home art therapy groups was the question of whether or not a token reward system would increase children's cooperative behaviors and art production. Participants in the study were residents at a treatment facility for abused children. Cottages differed in the responsiveness of residents to…

This paper describes the response of one locality, a rural county in Western Massachusetts, to the reality of rural homelessness. Jessie's House, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, is a short-term emergency shelter providing meals, housing, and advocacy to homeless families and individuals. The shelter has a staff of three full-time residents and…

This paper reports an attempt to determine whether or not an analysis and disaggregation of provincial public accounts could illuminate trends in the development of Canadian personal social services. Every third fiscal year between 1963-1964 and 1980-1981 was analyzed to give some idea of trends occurring immediately prior to and since the…

To compose a comprehensive description of the residential child care needs in Indiana, county agencies, county welfare departments, and probation departments were surveyed. Respondents were asked to identify the characteristics of children placed in Indiana residential facilities, in out-of-state residential care, and of those whom the agency was…

Discusses a treatment model that emphasizes the involvement of the child's own family in the undercare process and the development of mutual trust and respect among different members of the professional team. (SDH)

Presented are survey data from nursing homes and halfway houses on the costs associated with the provision of community-based residential care for the psychosocially disabled, along with an examination of the differences in those costs as they relate to characteristics of disability groups or types of facilities, and an analysis of the…

Designed for use in education and training and for applied research in selection and evaluation methods, the book reviews the actual behaviors of nurses caring for the institutionalized mentally retarded. Abstracts of more than 2,000 critical behaviors of nurses (incidents derived from reports of actual observations) are included. Behaviors are…

The book contains abstracts of more than 8,000 critical behaviors of attendants in caring for the mentally retarded in an institutional setting. Reports of actual observations of behaviors are the source of the descriptive abstracts. Within each of 15 categories, behaviors are divided according to those which are highly effective or highly…

This annotated bibliography presents 86 entries classified into the following sections: (1) Regional Conferences, (National Institute of Mental Health planning conferences on inservice training held in 1963), (2) Multidiscipline, Multilevel Training, (3) Professionals (administrators, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses), (4) Child…