A Preventive Mental Health Program in the School Setting: Description and Evaluation

Cowen, Emory L.; Izzo, Louis D.; Miles, Harold; Telschow, Earl F.; Trost, Mary Ann; Zax, Melvin

doi:10.1080/00223980.1963.9916650

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“…In the 1960s, Caplan~1964! andothers~Bolman, 1969;Cowen, Izzo, Miles, Telschow, Trost, & Zax, 1963;Cowen, Zax, Izzo, & Trost, 1966! made elegant appeals to prevention that capture the spirit of the time.…”

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The spirit and substance of community psychology: Reflections

Gregory

2001

Journal Community Psychology

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PREFACEI grew up on a rural dairy farm in upstate New York. After completing my BA in anthropology at Cornell University, and an MA and PhD in rehabilitation at Syracuse, I began working with people in a range of activities that has been marvelous. I have worked with people who were unemployed, intellectually handicapped, physically impaired, and emotionally disturbed. I have worked with people caught up in the drug scene, those relegated to prisons, and those whose lives were poverty-stricken. I have been a researcher, community activist, program designer, program director, and writer. Minors in psychology and other study led me to licensure, and registration in New Zealand as a psychologist. Postdoctoral study at Duke Medical Center's Depart ment of Psychiatry enabled my wife Janet and me to engage in fieldwork in a Mela- nesian culture, where I studied one of the classic "cargo cults." We have experienced the enriching albeit disorienting effects of crosscultural work, not just once in Melanesia, but twice, by going to work in New Zealand nearly 20 years ago. I have also had a neurological disability~Guillain Barre Syndrome!, and that personal experience has profoundly changed my views and priorities. Most recently, I have been busy absorbing ideas and information from the Internet.Three daughters and three grandchildren and a small walnut-tree farm, have given me cause to consider the future far more carefully in recent years. The result of this on-going life-long learning endeavor is that I find myself speaking out more and more about the confluence of the population increases, the global environmental decline, and the emergence of a narcissistic elite seemingly unwilling and unable to include the human masses in the global society. I believe we are heading towards both environmental and social collapse, unless strong action is taken immediately.Consequently, I look to community psychology and related disciplines, and to people generally, to wake up, to become aware of our precarious situation, and to move rapidly and firmly to face and deal with the hard issues. Among these are an unsustainable population and population increase, environmental destruction, the rich-poor gap, the decline of easy energy sources, the disparities in political and military power, vested interest groups, the marginalization and devaluation of millions of people, and the emergence of technology that could all too easily, devastate us. It seems to me that community psychologists could now, like the early pioneers in this field, rally those in related fields to look at our situation, then use their expertise to bring about needed social and political changes. No other discipline has the same potential and capability, based on accomplishments already made and the spirit already demonstrated by the pioneers. These strengths include the ability to empower, to use the prevention paradigms, and to build social supports and networks.I acknowledge many intellectual exchanges I have been privileged to hold with my community psychology stude...

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The spirit and substance of community psychology: Reflections

Gregory

2001

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Certainly there are precedents within the traditions of community psychology for performing policy-relevant research (e.g., Cowen, Izzo, Miles, Telschow, Trost, & Zax, 1963;Cowen, Trost, Lorion, Dorr, Izzo, & Isaacson, 1975). Frankfather and his co-workers have suggested that additional research is needed to specify which blend of "two-tiered" services is most effective in meeting the needs of older adults and their family caretakers.…”

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Working with families of impaired elderly

Smyer

1984

J. Community Psychol.

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In this article, several approaches to working with the complexity of family relationships in later adulthood are described. Basic information on family forms and the pattern of family support for older adults is discussed. In addition, several examples of interventions with family members of older adults are reviewed. The goal of these activities is to increase the range of options available to older adults and their family caregivers.

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“…For more than a decade the Primary Mental Health Project (PMHP), a program for early detection and prevention of school maladaptation, has been in existence in the city of Rochester (Cowen, Izzo, Miles, Telschow, Trost, & Zax, 1963;. After having established a base-rate frequency for the occurrence of school maladaptation, this group trained housewives as child aides to work with maladapting school children (Zax, Cowen, Izzo, Madonia, Merenda, & Trost, 1966;Zax & Cowen, 1967) as one facet of a broader program in early secondary prevention.…”

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Selection of nonprofessional child aides for a school mental health project

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Pokracki³

1972

Community Ment Health J

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School mental health professionals showed substantial agreement in their inferview judgments of the personal characteristics of women applying for positions as child aides in a program for primary graders evidencing school maladjustment problems. The 56 selected women were rated significantly higher than the 39 women who were turned down on all I8 judged interview characteristics. Factor analysis suggested that specific item discriminations were probably due to an overall "'liking" factor that raters applied in their judgments of particular attributes.

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A Preventive Mental Health Program in the School Setting: Description and Evaluation

Cited by 72 publications

References 20 publications

The spirit and substance of community psychology: Reflections

The spirit and substance of community psychology: Reflections

Working with families of impaired elderly

Selection of nonprofessional child aides for a school mental health project

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