skills training: $he effects of behavior rehearsal in groups on dating skills. Journal of Cmnaeling Psychology, 1975, 22, 224-230. MAHER, B. (ED.) . Clinical psychology and personality: Tha seleckd papers of George Kelly. New York: John Wdey, 1969. OSQOOD, C. E. Speculation on the structure of interpersonal intentions. Behavkmd Sci.5nca, 1970, PHILLIPB, E. L. The social skiue basis of psychopathology: Alterndiues lo abnormal psychology and psychdtry.Previous research indicates that many brain-damage screening tests lack the ability to se arate organic from functional patients at a satisfactory level. However the 8mith Symbol-Digit Modalities Test, the Benton Visual Retention +eat, the Background Interference Procedure variation of the Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test, and the MMPI Psychiatric-Organic scale have shown some promise in earlier studies. Their abilities to separate braindamaged patients from five functional samples in a psychiatric setting were com ared here. The Smith proved capable of discnrmnating organics from all &nctional eamples both before and after demographic matching. The Benton and the Minnesota Percepto-Dia nmtic Test se arated our organics from our functional groups before mat$ng, but res& with them after matchin were unencouraging. The P-0 scale separated the organics from four of &e five functional samples before matchin and two afterward. The combined use of the P-0 and Smith provided a hig%er level of discrimination than that attained with either alone, correctly identifying 90% of the organics and 79% of the functional Ss. CHERYLBURANENANDJOYCEWOLD

Previous research has indicated that ability-oriented organicity tests are of limited value in the separation of brain-damaged from schizophrenic patients in psychiatric hospitals. In the present study the capabilities of nine ability test measures and the MMPI Depression scale to differentiate organics from depressives were evaluated. Only six of the nine ts used to evaluate the differences between the two groups were significant at the 0.5 level and, after the samples were levelled for age, education and IQ, the number fell to zero. In contrast, the Depression scale differences were highly significant both before and after levelling. Multiple correlations run to evaluate the use of personality and ability measures in combination showed that they had considerable promise and suggest that the separation of organic from functional psychiatric hospital groups is best achieved by such combinations.

Administered the 1973 revision of the Henmon‐Nelson and the WAIS to 100 psychiatric patients. The correlation of Henmon‐Nelson raw scores with WAIS Full Scale scaled score was 0.83, which compared favorably with correlations run between several other short IQ tests and the WAIS in similar samples drawn from the same setting in earlier studies. However, the HenmonNelson did not appear able to estimate the WAIS IQs of low‐intelligence Ss or aged persons with consistent accuracy. The validities of short IQ tests and current practices in the selection of WAIS surrogates were discussed.