The effects of personality traits and volunteer bias in sexual standards research were studied. Two hundred and fifty-four subjects completed Jackson's Personality Research Form (PRF) and were subsequently sent either a sex or a control questionnaire. Return rates for the two groups were comparable. Also, the analyses of the PRF scores failed to show sex volunteers as having unique personality characteristics. These results are interpreted as grounds for rejecting the widely held stereotype that volunteers for sexual standards surveys are inevitably an atypical, deviant group. The possible limiting effects of age and method of soliciting information are discussed.

This article describes a model for integrating psychiatric rehabilitation services in a managed behavioral health care structure. Psychiatric rehabilitation and managed care are two distinct developments in the provision of mental health services that have proceeded independently though they can have compatible methods and outcomes. Descriptive detail is provided about a state initiative in Iowa to provide psychiatric rehabilitation services to those with serious mental illness through the state-contracted managed behavioral health care corporation. The article describes factors leading to the program's implementation, service delivery structures, reimbursements, personnel requirements, and performance indicators. Evidence for supporting this innovation is provided through a case-controlled outcomes study of mental health service units used and their costs for participants and matched controls.

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In order to distinguish between information that is unavailable or inaccessible in the schizophrenic's memory store, 48 schizophrenics and 48 normals learned three lists of categorized words. The lists were either cued or not cued at recall. Demographic and pretest measures validated the diagnosis of schizophrenia and indicated no significant differences between the experimental groups on age, education, intelligence, and categorizing ability. The results indicated that under conditions where the input did not exceed the limits of immediate memory span, schizophrenic memory deficit could be explained in terms of an "inaccessibility" of items due to a retrieval dysfunction. Under conditions where input exceeded these limits, the recall analysis was suggestive of an "unavailability" of items in the memory store. It was concluded that schizophrenics suffer deficits throughout the information processing system rather than at any specific stage. The locus of breakdown was dependent on the task demands of the experimental situation.Conceptualizations of schizophrenic memory deficit have significantly broadened in recent years. Traditional approaches (e.g. Cameron, 1938;Shakow, 1963;Yates, 1966;McGhie, 1969) have emphasized the disruption of input either as the information enters the processing system or at early stages of the system. Research based on this approach has typically focused on the processes involved in perceiving and/or attending to the incoming stimuli.However, recent investigations have attempted to demonstrate the involvement of other factors in schizophrenic memory deficit. Bauman and Murray (1968) and Bauman (1971a, b) investigated (1) recognition and recall performance and (2) the serial position of omissions of schizophrenic memory. Their results demonstrated an inferiority in performance for schizophrenics only under the recall task. In the recognition memory task there were no significant differences between the normals and schizophrenics. They interpreted this result as indicating an inability of the schizophrenics to adequately organize the memory store. They also found This article is based upon part of a dissertation submitted to the University of Manitoba in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PHD degree. The author would like to thank his supervisor, M. Wright, and his committee, particularly J.S.

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