"The purpose was to analyze the data collected by applying a schedule to the case records of twenty white female patients who were released on trial visit from the Florida State Hospital during the period from July, 1956 through December, 1957, in order to determine whether the initial refusal of the family to accept a group of ten white female patients for trial visit influenced the length of time these mental patients remained out of the hospital during the one year trial visit period"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Dorothy D. Hayes, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not 82 adults who continued treatment and 42 adults who discontinued treatment at the Leon County Mental Health Clinic differed significantly when cross-tabulated with seven baseline characteristics, six agency-client descriptive items, and eight items designed to reveal 'perception of the client's problem.' It was hoped that additional knowledge of and insight into the problem of discontinuance by a study of closed adult treatment records during a period of one year would help the Clinic serve, more effectively, adult clients in Leon County"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1961." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Dorothy D. Hayes, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-65).

"The purpose of the study was to indicate differences of significance in the incidences of professional action between patients diagnosed as organic brain syndromes and patients diagnosed as functional psychoses. The incidences of professional action were results of expediting the recommendations of the Neuropsychiatric Therapeutic Review Committee Veterans Administration Hospital, Lenwood Division, Augusta, Georgia, for the seventy-five patients of the study sample. The two groups of patients derived from the dichotomy of the study sample on the basis of psychiatric diagnosis: twenty-four patients had established psychiatric diagnoses of organic brain syndromes, and fifty-one patients had established psychiatric diagnoses within the range of functional psychoses. Difference of significance in the incidences of professional action between the two subsamples have been studied"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: James H. Williams, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-39).

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Thesis (Ph .D.)--York University, 1998. Graduate Programme in History. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 376-384). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ27309.

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This study was designed to identify correlates of success in Supported Employment (SE) programs for persons with psychiatric disabilities. Indiana policy-makers are seriously considering a managed care, or "capitated," system of payment to make SE provider programs more efficient economically. However, many agencies are concerned about providing services to more severely impaired individuals because of the potentially higher costs of serving these individuals. Two studies are included in this project. The goals of the first study were to identify SE consumer (clinical) characteristics that predict (1) successful outcomes, defined as whether the consumer achieves gainful work, and (2) program costs, defined as the amounts of SE service hours utilized by consumers who obtain work. In two large samples of SE consumers with serious mental illness, no clinical characteristics (e.g., diagnosis, rated functioning, hospitalization history) were associated with vocational outcome or service costs. The goal of the second study was to describe the types and amounts of services utilized by SE consumers who obtain work. Specific service categories associated with obtaining work were travel, training, and advocacy that was unrelated to the consumer's job. The implications of these findings are discussed in the framework of the debate over clinical versus empirical prediction. The need for a theoretical model of SE services that allows the use of predictive clinical and consumer driven services is also discussed. / Department of Psychological Science

This study examined the use of language in the development and implementation of mental health policy. It focused on the current discourse of mental health reform in Ontario as it related to individuals with a mental illness and who are in conflict with the law. Using a qualitative design, informed by critical inquiry and a postmodern perspective, the researcher explored administrative perceptions of the accomplishments and challenges faced at different levels of the mental health and criminal justices systems in Ontario. The participants' understandings of the provincial mental health reform policy, Making it Happen, and the extent they felt that their organizations and related policies were able to create positive change in the lives of service users were also examined. While the language of mental health policy encompasses an empowerment, community integration approach to providing services, findings indicated that a biomedical-model, public safety discourse appear to inform both policy and practice. A number of questions and apparent inconsistencies in the manner in which the mental health and criminal justice systems deal with the needs of this population were also identified. This thesis concludes with recommendations for future research.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tulsa, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-78).