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Z Parker
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School consultation and the management of obsessive-compulsive personality in the classroom.
The need for a comprehensive assessment involving areas of ability, personality, and motivation when young people are referred to a mental health service with problems of school failure is discussed. Traits associated with obsessive-compulsive personality style are reviewed, and the impact on school performance explored. Three case examples illustrate the ways this personality style interferes with success in the classroom and the concerns and problems encountered in providing intervention. Particular classroom teaching strategies may assist teacher and student in avoiding these problems. In addition, the benefits of SQ3R, Cornell systems, and cooperative learning are discussed, and warning signals, observable by the teacher, described. The process of mental health consultation, contribution to classroom change, and difficulties encountered along with the advantages of professional partnership in the diagnosis and management of school problems are reviewed.
Resolving the conflict of training and therapy in psychiatry.
This paper poses the question of whether psychiatric patients are disadvantaged by their exposure to psychiatric residents. The advantages and disadvantages of short residency rotations both for patient treatment and resident education are examined. Recommendations are suggested for alternative models of supervision which may reduce the negative effects of short-term rotations on therapeutic outcome and result in improved educational opportunities for psychiatric residents, especially in the area of chronic care.
Considerations in community mental health programming for youth.
The particular challenges of providing mental health programs which engage youth and offer effective and acceptable services are discussed. The paper identifies and discusses the guiding principles for development of a comprehensive and integrated multiservice centre for the varied needs of youth. The program focuses on problems occurring as part of the normal developmental process as well as on the needs of emotionally disturbed or mentally ill youth. The place of such a program within the context of the community is identified with the responsibility for indirect consultation and effective community liaison being stressed. An established program based on this model is described.
Letter: Psychosis in Down's syndrome treated with amitriptyline.
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