The methadone maintenance treatment patient is at high risk of contracting or transmitting the AIDS virus, because of past and current high-risk sexual and drug-taking behavior. The female patient is of particular concern ...

The present research is concerned with reactive symptomatology of depression experienced by Israeli immigrants who have remained in the U.S.A. despite their recognized intention to return to their homeland.;The research ...

Student peer groups is an area of professional socialization that has received limited study in graduate social work education. This informal social organization, which is part of the student subculture of the social system ...

The study examines the relationship between the level of involvement of Diaspora communities with their specific Israeli target communities and the level of participation in community life of residents in these neighborhoods ...

This study examines continuity of care for the seriously and persistently mentally ill at a psychiatric hospital continuum of care.;Continuity of care is defined as a process involving the orderly, uninterrupted movement ...

This study sought to compare outcomes of a modified therapeutic community (TC) in a shelter for homeless mentally ill chemical abusers (MICA) clients, with a general shelter for veterans, with a subgroup of MICA clients. ...

The first component of this study frames the policy discussions leading to the creation of Pennsylvania's Personal Care Home by providing an historical analysis of the housing options offered to the elderly. By the 1970s, ...

This is a descriptive study whose purpose is to identify the factors associated with hostility and a tendency towards punitiveness in a group of mothers of retarded children.;The two major hypotheses of the study are: that ...

This study explored the relationship between staff development in AIDS service organizations and the specific reactions of staff as manifested by secondary traumatic stress (STS) and turnover intention (TI). It was ...