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The article reflects on the mental health training and work programs of professionals in mental health care. The author offers proposals in the hope of addressing the needs that arise from the rapidly expanding application of community health programs. He expresses his doubt that the psychologists can connect these needs. He asserts the need of specialists to be prepared in such a way to be able to give effective help to those need and ask for it in the community centers.

A measure of esthetic interest in visual art-tendency to prefer art which experts consider esthetically better-was developed in the United States, but showed high internal consistency in Greece as well. Measures of self-characterizations correlated with esthetic interest, and of active versus passive preferences in food and drink, originally developed in the United States, also showed internal consistency in Greece. The correlations among these measures found in the United States, moreover, were substantially replicated in Greece. The personal significance of esthetic interests is thus shown to have marked transcultural stability. In both countries, esthetic interest is positively related to liking for autonomy, variety, and challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]