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This article explores two hypotheses about how voters encounter information during campaigns. According to the anticipated agreement hypothesis, people prefer to hear about candidates with whom they expect to agree. The ''issue publics'' hypothesis posits that voters choose to encounter information on issues they consider most important personally. We tested both hypotheses by distributing a multimedia CD offering extensive information about George W. Bush and Al Gore to a representative sample of registered voters with personal computers and home Internet connections during the closing weeks of the 2000 campaign. Exposure to information was measured by tracking individuals' use of the CD. The evidence provided strong support for the issue public hypothesis and partial support for the anticipated agreement hypothesis. Republicans and conservatives preferred to access information about George Bush, but Democrats and liberals did not prefer information about Vice President Gore. No interactions appeared between these two forms of selective exposure. We designed this study to explore individual differences in exposure to campaign information. Monitoring the information choices of a large sample of voters over the course of a campaign is a challenging task. We used a relatively new form of campaign communication (a multimedia CD-Rom), which made it possible to track the information voters saw fit to encounter. By providing real voters with real information about real candidates in the context of a significant election (the 2000 presidential election), our research design permitted us to test a pair of long-standing hypotheses (1) the ''anticipated agreement'' hypothesis-people seek out information about candidates with whom they expect to agree and avoid information about candidates with whom they expect to disagree; and (2) the ''issue public hypothesis''-people seek out information on policy issues to which they attach a great deal of personal importance.We begin by reviewing the literature on voluntary exposure to political information and outlining the theoretical rationale for the hypotheses. Next, we describe our methodology, outline the findings, and spell out their implications for understanding voter behavior and campaign communication more generally.

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We investigated subjects' responses to a synthesized talking face displayed on a computer screen in the context of a questionnaire study. Compared to subjects who answered questions presented via text display on a screen, subjects who answered the same questions spoken by a talking face spent more time, made fewer mistakes, and wrote more comments, When we compared responses to two different talking faces, subjects who answered questions spoken by a stem face, compared to subjects who answered questions spoken by a neutral face, spent more time, made fewer mistakes, and wrote more comments. They also liked the experience and the face less. We interpret this study in the light of desires to anthropomorphize computer interface and suggest that incautiously adding human characteristics, like face, voice, and facial expressions, could make the experience for users worse rather than better.CurrentMultimedn interfaces are created primarily by intuition. Development of amethod for analysis and design of Multimedia presentation interfaces is described. The study investigates task based information analysis, persistence of information, selective attention and concurrency in presentation. The method gives an agenda of issues, diagrams and techniques for specifications, and guidelines for media selection and presentation scripting. Use of the method is illustrated with an example from a shipboard emergency managements ystem. 205

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Wraparound is an individualized, team-based service planning and care coordination process intended to improve outcomes for youth with complex behavioral health challenges and their families. In recent years, several factors have led wraparound to become an increasingly visible component of service systems for youth, including its alignment with the youth and family movements, clear role within the systems of care and public health frameworks, and expansion of the research base. In this paper, we provide a review of the place of the wraparound process in behavioral health, including a discussion of the opportunities it presents to the field, needs for further development and research, and recommendations for federal actions that have the potential to improve the model's positive contribution to child and family well-being.

This study demonstrated a consistent presence of stigmatization in children's beliefs about the causes of childhood mental health problems. Low effort, parenting, and substance abuse together tapped a moralistic and blaming view of mental health problems. The results reinforce the need to address stigmatization of mental disorders and the relative stigmatization of different causal beliefs. The findings of variation by ethnicity and diagnosis can inform and target antistigmatization efforts.

In children's mental health, collaborative, team-based individualized service planning is most commonly known as wraparound, and has become one of the primary strategies for improving services and outcomes for children with the highest levels of need. We report on analyses of data gathered at 72 wraparound team meetings from communities around the United States. We describe the composition of the teams and the quality of the planning process they engaged in, and explore the extent to which these factors were associated with team member satisfaction and the individualization of plans. Teams in our study were numerically dominated by professionals. Parents attended a large majority of meetings, participation by youth and family advocates was frequent, participation by other family members infrequent, and participation by other members of the family's informal or natural support networks rare. Observed teams varied considerably in the quality of their planning process and the degree of individualization of plans. Higherquality planning was significantly associated with increased individualization of plans and with team member satisfaction with meeting productivity. KEY WORDS: wraparound; individualization; team; planning; community-based.In recent years, collaborative family-provider teams have become increasingly popular as a mechanism for creating and implementing individualized plans of care for children and families with complex needs. This sort of team-based planning is currently in use in a variety of human service contexts, including special