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Direct linkSemmelhack, Diana J.; Hazell, Clive; Hoffman, William – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2008
This study explored the impact of a group-as-a-whole processing group on 11 severely mentally ill adult clients residing in a long term care facility over 30 weeks. Participants were evaluated for the effect of the group on anxiety and depression, using the Beck Depression Index (BDI-II) and the Beck Anxiety Index (BAI). This longitudinal study…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Health Services, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedEpple, William A.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1985
A telephone survey of each state's mental retardation agency found that persons with profound or severe mental retardation account for 79.3% of all residents. Of all 177,719 staff, 51.5% are in the direct care category and 19.9% are in the clinical category. The overall staff : resident ration is 1.60 :1. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Residential Institutions, Residential Programs
Grabowski, Stanley M. – Adult Leadership, 1971
Lists, with annotations, several useful documents on residential adult education and gives a brief census of residential centers. Information about ordering documents is also given. (EB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Residential Institutions, Residential Programs
Setchell, Anne – Continuous Learning, 1970
A brief evaluative survey of the February, 1970, residential workshop held at Quetico Centre, Ontario, for persons having operational responsibility of various residential education centers across Canada. (LY)
Descriptors: Administrators, Residential Institutions, Residential Programs, Workshops
Brasher, Bob – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1980
The author discusses the needs of houseparents in residential centers for the blind and the strides that are being made by national associations to meet those needs. Increased articles on the subject in journals and a membership campaign to encourage participation of houseparents in their association are suggested. (PHR)
Descriptors: Blindness, Needs, Professional Associations, Residential Institutions
de Guzman, Allan B.; Pagdonsolan, Anne Cyril A.; Parel, Lou Marie B.; Parial, Laurence Lloyd B.; Pastor, Vina Florentina S.; Ivan, Eunice V. Peret; Perez, Lou Madelene M. – Educational Gerontology, 2007
The aging population of the world has dramatically been increasing thereby creating the need to assess and address the emotional feelings of the elderly. The intent of this qualitative study was to capture the essence or the lebenswelt of the Filipino elderly's sense of belongingness. This was accomplished by capitalizing on the power of conscious…
Descriptors: Residential Institutions, Older Adults, Geriatrics, Nursing Homes
Prisiazhnaia, N. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
According to official statistics, in Russia there are over 800,000 orphans and children who are deprived of parental care; 260,000 are living and being taught in more than 4,000 state boarding institutions. The category "orphan child" consists of children up to the age of eighteen, one or both of whose parents have died. The term…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Disadvantaged Youth, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries
Shechory, Mally; Sommerfeld, Eliane – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2007
In a prospective study, the attachment style, home-leaving age, length of time in residential care, and behavioral problems among Israeli residential care children (N=68), were studied. Data analyses showed that children removed from their homes at a later age suffered from higher levels of anxiety, depression and social problems compared to…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Interaction, Depression (Psychology)
Rutter, Michael; Colvert, Emma; Kreppner, Jana; Beckett, Celia; Castle, Jenny; Groothues, Christine; Hawkins, Amanda; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Stevens, Suzanne E.; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Disinhibited attachment is an important sequel of an institutional rearing, but questions remain regarding its measurement, its persistence, the specificity of the association with institutional rearing and on whether or not it constitutes a meaningful disorder. Method: Children initially reared in profoundly depriving institutions in…
Descriptors: Children, Services, Persistence, Disadvantaged
Dale, Pamela – History of Education, 2007
Recent comments by Baroness Warnock have reignited controversy over the relative merits of policies designed to promote inclusion and address special educational needs. These debates, conducted mainly between practitioners and parents, do not encourage input from historians but can usefully contextualize earlier models of service delivery. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Services, Educational Needs, Social Control
Download full textSCHRAM, LLOYD W.; AND OTHERS – 1966
LIMITED FACILITIES HAVE BEEN RESTRICTING EXISTING AND PROPOSED PROGRAMS IN ADULT EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. THIS REPORT DESCRIBES A CAMPUS CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTER, WHICH WOULD AID IN THE EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION OF SHORT COURSES, CONFERENCES, INSTITUTES, AND SEMINARS. SUCH A CENTER SHOULD BE ABLE TO MEET 85 PERCENT OF THE SHORT…
Descriptors: Continuing Education Centers, Educational Facilities, Residential Institutions
Peer reviewedHorowitz, Harold – Child Welfare, 1976
A description of the architectural planning and building design of the McQuade Foundation, a small residential treatment center in New York State. (BRT)
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Institutional Environment, Residential Institutions
Gregg, A. – Adult Educ (London), 1970
An account of the founding of a museum by a residential adult education college, and of subsequent interaction between the college and the museum, other educational institutions, and the public. A January 1970 exercise in Elizabethan art, drama, and cuisine is described. (LY)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Museums, Residential Institutions, Residential Programs
Litchfield, Ann – Continuing Education Report from the University of Chicago, 1970
Descriptors: Extension Education, Facilities, Residential Institutions, Statistical Data
McClean, B.; Dench, C.; Grey, I.; Shanahan, S.; Fitzsimons, E.; Hendler, J.; Corrigan, M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
Person Focused Training is introduced as a model of service delivery for people with severe challenging behaviours. It is defined as training and supporting staff to conduct functional assessments and to design and implement positive behavioural support for specific individuals with challenging behaviours. Longitudinal outcome data are presented…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Change, Longitudinal Studies, Residential Institutions
