The new behavior technologies raise obvious ethical and legal questions, particularly when employed in institutional contexts. This paper offers a conceptual framework for the discussion of legal interventions designed to prevent Orwellian abuses of the new technologies, without preventing legitimate therapeutic applications.
Clinicians and administrators have emphasized crisis intervention as a means of extending services and reducing costs. This paper asserts that ghetto children, because of their multiple deprivations, complex problems, and family structures, are particularly unsuitable for short‐term contacts. Modalities other than crisis intervention are indicated as alternatives to long‐term child treatment.
While acknowledging the importance of primary prevention, mental health agencies continue to devote their major resources to diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation efforts. This paper attempts a comprehensive understanding of the multiple and related barriers to the design and implementation of preventative programs. Barriers are discussed under the categories of definitional problems, systemic complexity, difficulties of demonstration, and lack of constituent demands.
Attkisson, C. Clifford, McIntyre, Marguerite H., Hargreaves, Wm. A., Harris, M. Robert, and Ochberg, Frank M.
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This paper describes a conceptual model of human service program evaluation, and integrates three key components of the evaluation process: a) Levels of Evaluative Activity, b) Functional Roles of the Evaluator, and c) Program Information Capability. This model has been useful in assessing evaluation capability of mental health programs, and in suggesting itineraries for enhancing evaluation capacity.