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acing prospect of two political conventions in one summer, iami Beach police chief Rocky Pomerance is beefing up his :ftware. Determined to prevent a replay of Chicago '68, omerance asked humanistic psychologist Denis O'Donovan 1d team to put 300-member police force through intensive uman relations training.. .Weekly sessions, starting early lis year, have ranged from Constitutional law and civil rights creative crowd control, O'Donovan tells BT. Techniques clude simulation, meetings with protest leaders, role playg. . .During one role switch, an officer, asked what he would J if he were a shrink, responded: "I'd take careful notes 1d write a book."O'Donovan is taking careful notes, plans write book. He's at Florida Atlantic U., Boca Raton 33432.

lesearch Tips or Crime Fighters

esearchers met enforcers at Justice Dept.-sponsored symosium on law enforcement science and technology last week Washington, D.C. Challenge to enforcers: use behavioral nowledge to stem crime and improve corrections..

Expfanations of prison violence that ignore social fabric f prison won't work, U. Iilinois sociologist Edith Flynn told reeting. Prisons are run with tacit consent of inmates, and dministrators know it. Any change that disrupts intricate, iformal social relations between inmates and staff raise odds or violence, whether changes increase control or reform. lynn said her analysis is no excuse for status quo, but a lea for change management. She urged officials to read new odel guidelines on inmate rights from Ilinois Dept. of Corctions. Write her for paper and info at Soc. Dept., U. of linois, Urbana 61801.

Yale socioiogist Aibert Reiss, who has studied police crime or some time, urged cops to stop focusing on criminals, :art focusing on crime and to become professional. Among is tips, environmental prevention: tell retailers shopliftig isn't a crime unless merchants take steps to protect mernandise. "If people wil buy on impuise, they'll steal on imulse," where merchandise is out for grabs.

Psychologist Saleem Shah, head of NIMH Canter for Study f Crime and Delinquency, urged using research to divert ids from corrections. He plugged compieted first phase of udy by socio:ogist Marvin Wolfgang, at U, Penn., for imortant policy clues. Wolfgang tracked all 10,000 boys born Philadelphia in 1955 to get first sophisticated probability. nalysis of delinquency. Of group, 3,500 had one recorded sn-in with law: almost half had no further. trouble. Six perent were chronic offenders, accounting for more than half elinquent acts of the total group. Question, said Shah, is here to invest energy and money for intervention (Wolfgang 'ggests after third offense). Study also shois no graduation I seriousness of offenses. U. Chicago Press will pualish udy, Delinqu ;ncy in a Birth Cohort. i:: June. Volfgang is : work on second phase, taking sample of original group ast age 18.

Psychiatrists Pan

Shrink Power

Two NIMH psychiatrists have blasted the Amer. Psychiatric Assn.'s stand on mentai heaith coverage under national health insurance as unworkable, self-serving, inappropriate to delivering adequate care and sure to bankrupt the mental health service system.. ,In a private position paper to be sent to key members of Congress, E. Fuller Torrey and Robert Tayior claim APA's demand for extensive hospitalization benefits and for recognition of psychiacrists as chief care providers not only wouid raise costs but also would create a superficial manpower shortage, enabling psychiatrists to sluff off difficult cases. The stand also ignores research on mentai health treatment, Torrey and Taylor assert.

In brief, they maintain that hospitalization is less effective than cheap alternatives-day-care and waik-in services-and that psychiatrists are\_no more effective than psychologists and other pros. To back up contention, they propose financial restrictions on use of psychiatrists in insurance-paid psychotherapy and other non-medical services.

Paper is bound to stir interest in House and Senate health subcommittees, especially Senate subcmte. where one temporary staffer is psychiatrist Joseph Perpich. {In doference to past requests from NiMH director Bertram Brown, please write Taylor. for positicn paper at his homo address: 5C01 White Flint St., Kensington, Md. 20795.)

Glimpse at Nader's NIMH Report

Ralph Nader zlready is getting letters from mental health pros scared silly that the forthcoming Nader Aaider exposé of the mental health complex wil hurt business, According to Nader ace Franklin Chu, chief investigator on the study. brief talks hy Nader folks at recent maetings have stirred up justified fears thet NiMH and mental health pros are in for a drubbing.. .Fears were fueled even more by limited circulation of a content summary that may bear only historical interest by the time the report comes out (best estimates now are for summer release).

Main issue wili be neglect of the consumer. The rest will be icing. but the icing has pros trembling. Examples the summary include:

Portrayal of mental health complex as mental health mafia, founded and fad by combination of professional self-interest, congressional sugar daddies and a powerful health tobby.

Argument that, like it or not, what's needed for mental health is not pros and programs but better jobs, housing and socia: support mechanisms.

Dirty details of elitism, cronyism and power-playing at NiMH, at universities and in professions that have little to do with delivering mental goods.

Charge of over-em.phasic on research and expensive services and claims or aver-abundance of lo quality resdercn, ack of research direction and dearth: of direct problem tes\_.rci.

Worst of all, report will give general impression that mental health pros are no better or worse than other pros and that Nat'l Institute of Mental Health officials are very much like other government bureaucrats.

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LOGJAM: Study of jail suicides by psychiatrist Bruce Danto suggests hidden evil in court backlogs and stiff bail policies. Of 10 suicides at Wayne County {(Mich.) jail over thrce years, four prisoner: had no bond set and thres hsd bonds of S10,000 or π ¿re, "Thus," says Danto, "seven out of the 10 suicides cucid not see their way clear to leaving jail in the forseeabl future." Write Danto at Suicide. Prevention Center, Psycriatric Inst., 1151 Taylor, Detroit 48202. MONEY: New initiation and development grants to heip poverty areas plan mental health services available now from NIMH. Grants uo to S50,000 each are for assessing local needs, designing services. Contact assoc. dirs. for mental health at HEw regional offices. List of regional offices from Art Cosina. Rm. 11C-17, NIMH, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville. Md. 20952,  SYMPOSIA: First Western Hemisphere Conference on Acupuncture, Kirlian Photography and the Human Aura features Stanley Kriponer, Thelma Moss, j.R. Worsley of Coilege of Chinese Acupuncture, Londor. Tickets (\$7) for day-long symposium May 25 at United Engineering Center, 345 47th St., New York City, avaiiable at door. Info from Carie Harris, 515 Howard Ave., Staten Island 10301. . .Phenomenoiogically oriented Du-

quesne U. psychology dept. sponsors Theories and Applications of Logotherapy course July 10-28, to be taught by Viktor Frankl. Course for credit costs \$213, but public is invited to lectures for S1, Write Graduate Dean, Duquesne, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219., .Youth and Drugs Institute June

18-19 at Nortneastern U. in Boston, Designed for schooi and community drug program personnel. Info from Taylor Roth, Northeastern. 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. 02115.  UP FROM ASHES: Looks like Stanford Research Inst. has resurrected shortlived White House National Goals Research staff. SR| has set up Center for the Study of Social Policy to help decision-make:s develóp and forecast alternative programs, Washington office, headed by NGR staffer Charles Williams, is at 1611 N. Kent St., Arlington, Va, 22209. EDUCATION 1980:Enrollment in nation's colleges will increasę 55 percent during 1970's, will reach totai of 13.3 million by fall 1980, predicts Nat'l, Center for Educational Statistics. Two-year colleges wil grow fastest {up 84 percent by. 1980, from 1.6 to 3 million). Report, Projections of Educational Statistics to 1980-81, also contains data on per-pupil expenditures, breakdown on degrees to be awarded, teachers' salaries. It's availalle this summer, GPO, Wash.\_ D.C. 20402. . .Study on future of Yale recommends reducing four-year curricula to three for baccalaureate Jegree. Study, by Yale taculty group héaded by political ;cientist Robert Dahl, urges other innovations aimed at re-

centering college around student. Limited copies available free, Presicent's Office, Yale U., New Haven, Conn. 06520. ENVIRONMENT: Bojabi Tree House Puppet Theater

takes ecology message to grade ichools. Shows educate kids on causes, prevention of poliution; are especially effective, says procucor Jaif Peyton, because puppats are underdeveioped as teaching tool. Write Peyton, P.O. Box 270, New Haven, Cono. O3502.PUBLICATIONS:Editor Jacques

Mehlet hopes new international quarterly, Cognition, will provide forum for coqnitive research-downplaying informstion grocessing, emphasizing child development, psychotinquistics, related fields. First issue this spring, with articies by T. Bower, Noam Chomsky, Jonas Langer. Individual subs S12, Mouton, P,O, Box 482, The Hague, Netherlands. Send manuscripts to Thomas Bever, Psych. Dept., Schermerhorn. Hall. Columbia U., New York City 10027. . .Spiritual Community Guide includes list of centers in U.S., Canada; catafoqs Eastern spiritual methodologies; lists magazines, books of interest, \$2.95 from Spirituai Community, Box 1080, San Rafael, Calif. 94902.

PSYCHING CONGRESS:Amorphia, pro-pot legalization group, launches Washington's first psychederc drug lobby. Chief lobbvist is 28-vear-oid lawver Gordon Browne!l, former Nixon staffer and Reagan worker, wh- still works part time for GOP strategist Kevin Phillips. Focus is on decriminalization and importance of credibility with users in drug ed, Contact Blair Newman. Box 744, Mill Valley, Calif. 94941,  INPUT: Researchers Pat McNaughton and Frank Bischel want info on studies illuminating classroom discourse and verbal interaction. Pair plan symposium at Internatl Congress of Applied Linguistics ia Copenhagen in August. Contact them at Claremont Inst. of Linquistic Studies, Claremont. Calif, 91711.  DEPRESSION: U. Michigan's inst. for Social Research is conducting first annual survey of state of nation's mental health, Emphasis is on study of depression, but survey wil aiso cover positive attributes of mental health. Contact survey dirs., psychiatrist Monica Bumenthal, epidemialoaist Sidney Cobb, psychologist John French Jr. (Ann Arbor 48106).  MED1A: Deadline May, 15 for Amer. Psychological Foundation's 1972 nat'l media awards. Criterion: "reporting which increases the public's knowledge and understanding of psychology." Categories: newspaper; TV, radic, movie; magazine, book, monograph. For info and nominations, contact Jim Warren, APA, 1200 17th \$t., NW, Wash., D.C. 20036.  COO-COO: "Corporations may follow Skinnerian principles," allows behaviorism critic M. Brewster Smith, "because corporations are basically pigaonbrained.". Good way to make industry sensitive to environmental quality. Smith told recent Western Psychological Assn, meeting, wouid be "to set up a suitable reinforcement schedule of profit and loss,"He's at U.Cal-Santa Cruz (95060).

BEHAVIOR TODAYMay,8, 1972