As the first phase of a project designed to institute controlled drinking as a therapeutic goal for alcoholics, it was decied to recruit volunteers who were dissatisfied with their present mode of drinking but who had not previously sought help. This was done by requesting them to phone a private ...

This paper describes a program designed to use trained volunteer companions in crisis intervention with rape victims in a public hospital emergency room. The history of the extensive negotiations necessary to implement the program and detailed descriptions of volunteer training are included. Results are largely in the form of subjective ...

The present study was undertaken to determine those variables which best predict college students' reactions to lectures designed to solicit volunteers for a juvenile corrections program. One hundred and thirty-four students returned mailed questionnaires which assessed multiple variables related to: (1) audience characteristics, (2) recruiter (lecturer) characteristics, and (3) volunteer ...

This discussion covers the successful implementation of a respirator program on a voluntary basis in a large industrial plant. The program had the stated objective of mandatory usage at the end of a specified period of time. It was successfully implemented in an 1100-man department. This practical approach is applicable ...

Telephone crisis intervention services are growing at a very rapid rate. A review of the literature reveals that there are very few references to this new phenomenon and even fewer that deal with evaluating the effectiveness of telephone crisis training. Herein 7 articles are reviewed which deal with volunteer selection ...

When staff members of a community mental health center's day treatment program for adults with emotional problems found there was not enough time for planning and meeting program goals, they considered using volunteers to help in the treatment process. The center staff worked with the local mental health association to ...

The authors conducted a controlled research investigation into the effectiveness of a volunteer program at three Veterans Administration hospitals. In the program, called Project Anchor, volunteers helped mental patients being released from the hospital become reintegrated into their home communities. A total of 78 volunteers and 89 patients participated in ...

A volunteer program can become a solid, smooth-functioning part of a community mental health center or other agency if it is built around the needs of both the agency and the volunteers. The author discusses the need to develop realistic job descriptions, to screen the applicants carefully, and to provide ...

Fifteen student volunteers participated in a study to determine the duration of amnesia obtained with diazepam and with pentazocine. The group that received pentazocine experienced only slight sedation and no amnesia. There was extreme variance in the level of sedation and in the incidence and duration of amnesia in the ...

Dissertation (PhD)--University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2005.

REEF's mission, to educate and enlist divers in the conservation of marine habitats, is accomplished primarily through its Fish Survey Project. Access marine fish species distribution and abundance data for coastal U.S. waters or view data summaries for the Great American Fish Count. Site also provides information on sea turtle ...

Before and immediately after the 2 most recent offerings of a local palliative care volunteer training program, 17 participants completed the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and Bugen's Coping with Death Scale. The training program consisted of approximately 27 hours of training presented in 3-hour blocks during a 9-week period. ...

This work addresses one of the basic concepts of volunteer management, a three-level program for training volunteers. The author addresses the need for an appropriate amount of training, the important categories of training for volunteers and the use of volunteers as trainers of other volunteers. She presents a perspective of ...

Supposedly, seniors have a good deal of discretionary time at their disposal, but so far, they form a much smaller proportion of the volunteer force than their numbers in the total population might lead us to expect. Yet they undoubtedly have much that they could contribute in terms, for example, ...

This article analyzes results from a comprehensive survey of members of the Association for Volunteer Administration (AVA), conducted in 1992-93. Two-thirds of the membership completed the mail questionnaire. The article elaborates findings from the survey in the areas of: professional background of members, their position in volunteer administration, their volunteer ...

Volunteers represent a growing, but often undervalued, section of service delivery in many areas in the community, particularly in health care. This paper is centred on volunteers' perceptions and experiences of home visiting gained through the implementation of the Community Mothers (CM) program in Western Australia (WA). Further, the paper ...

(+)-1-(3-Methyl-4-morpholino-2:2-diphenylbutyryl)pyrrolidine (R.875) raised the threshold to ischaemic pain in healthy human volunteers. The peak effect for all doses was reached after about 2 hr. The drug frequently caused nausea and vomiting but no euphoria. Muscular weakness was experienced by many subjects and was sometimes followed 1 to 2 hr. later ...

Dipipanone hydrochloride raised the threshold to ischaemic pain in healthy human volunteers. The lowest dose producing a significant rise in pain threshold was 10.0 mg. The peak effect for all doses was reached after about 2 hr. Side effects, the most common of which were drowsiness, nausea, and vertigo, are ...