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This paper assesses the therapeutic effectiveness of college students working with chronic, hospitalized mental patients. Significant improvement in be havior was found for the patients in the experimental group on the Paranoid Projection, Anxious Intropunitiveness, and Conceptual Disorganization sub scales of the Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale. Male patients showed more improvement than did females working with the female college students in the program.