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The author received a scientist exchange grant from the National Institutes of Health and visited the USSR as a health-science representative in 1976. He reports that mental health services in the USSR are provided primarily by the medical profession through state mental hospitals and psychiatric sections in general hospitals and clinics. Drug therapy is the main treatment method, but psychotherapy is beginning to make some inroads. Family therapy settings are the newest additions to preventive mental health care.

score of 12 €or a subject of superior intelligence is indicative of more extensive organic deterioration than the same score for a dull subject.Grassi has suggested a score of 20 as the cutting point between organics and non-organics. The results of this study, however, tend to indicate a score of 16 as more appropriate. SUMMARYOne hundred twenty subjects, equally divided into organic, functional, and normal groups, were tested with the Grassi Block Substitution Test. All of the normal subjects scored above 20 and all of the organics fell below this score, suggested by Grassi as the cutting point between normal and brain damaged subjects. Although all of the iuntional subjects scored higher than the organics, approximately half of them fell below 20, which. according to Grassi, would suggest moderate organic impairment. The results of this study support the general conclusion that the Grassi test should take its place among other diagnostic instruments.

PROBLEMThis study was undertaken in order to examine the developmental patterns in sexual identification in children's drawings of human figure. The chief problem was to determine whether the drawing of male or female figure by children at various ages had sex linked characteristics. Our hypothesis was that there were no significant differences between boys and girls at various ages in drawing of human figure as male or female. SUBJECTS AND PROCEDURE Human figure drawings of the H-T-P were used for this study. The original sample* consisted of drawings of 10,650 public school children aged five to fourteen years and eleven months. These drawings were numbered and in using Snedecor's table of random numbers the population was reduced to 1000 drawings, which were used in statistical computations of this study. This final sample represented 100 drawings per each year, 50 of which were produced by girls and 50 by boys. The drawings of human figures thus obtained were examined as to sex drawn and the frequencies were tallied separately for each sex and each age group. The identification of the sex of the figure drawn was made strictly on the bdsis of the drawing, i.e., the subjects were not asked to identify the sex of the person drawn. When the picture did not provide sufficient clues for determining what sex was meant by the drawer, the drawings were classified as undistinguishable and tallied in a special category. I n five drawings of the total sample two persons were depicted, one male and one female. These drawings for the purpose of this study were also classified within the special category. The data thus obtained were plotted and three sets of frequency polygons prepared. To test the hypothesis, 3 x 2 chi-squares were computed for each age group and for the total population following Guilford's procedure RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONThe numbers of male, female or undifferentiated figures drawn by boys and girls for each age group and the corresponding chi-squares are presented in Table 1. All the chi-squares are significant a t the .01 level at 2 degrees of freedom.(2, P. 232).

To investigate the relationship between their fathers' absence and moral development, 40 urban adolescent males adjudicated as delinquents were randomly selected from a Juvenile Court population. 20 of them came from families in which fathers were absent and 20 lived with fathers present. Both groups were administered Form B of Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview. Statistical comparisons of the mean moral maturity scores suggested that male delinquents whose fathers were present attained higher moral maturity scores than those whose fathers were absent.