Autistic children who are brought for psychological treatment are usually experiencing social and emotional difficulties common to autism. In addition, their parents may be in need of support. An integrative approach to treatment that utilizes the rapport building component of nondirective play therapy with directive techniques is presented.This approach targets maladaptive behavior and parent education. This case study describes a brief course of therapy in which an 11-year-old autistic female client experienced increases in social behavior and compliance at home and displayed a less irritable mood. The course of her therapy and specific interventions are examined.

The objective was to evaluate the efficacy of worksite weight reduction programs at high-stress worksites. We employed a longitudinal study based on two meal replacements daily with subjects choosing a third 'sensible' meal. The subjects were 492 healthy, overweight men and women working in high-stress occupations (police, hospital health professionals, flight crew members, firefighters). The mean group ages ranged from 32.17 +/- 5.70 to 44.50 +/- 16.40 years; the mean group body mass indexes (BMIs) ranged from 27.40 +/- 2.54 to 32.90 +/- 3.39 kg/m(2). The completion rate for the 12 weeks was 79.8%. Reductions in mean weight and mean BMI were greater than in medically supervised clinical trials with non-worksite adults. Firefighters lost the most weight and medical personnel the least. Follow-up found considerable retention of weight loss. Men lost significantly more weight than women (p < 0.006). We conclude that employees in some high-stress settings may participate productively in worksite weight reduction and maintenance programs that use meal replacements.

HIS is a report on an attempt to obtain some clues to the psychodynamics T of men visiting prostitutes, in terms of the men. It is curious that the wealth of professional and popular literature on prostitution almost always ignores the men and tends to be exclusively concerned with the prostitute. The literature is thus like the law, under which a prostitute may go to jail, while her partner is not even arraigned. That this is not entirely a function of male chauvinism of male investigators is seen in the several reports by madams and prostitutes on their work, in which the male customers are seldom discussed except in picturesque or picaresque terms Kinsey and his associates report that 69 per cent of the total white male population of the United States visits a prostitute at some time, and from 15 to 20 per cent visit prostitutes more than a few times a year. (4) They also report that single men visit prostitutes from three to four times as often as married men, and that the lower socio-economic groups are most likely, while collegeeducated men are least likely, to visit prostitutes. Other investigators have reported that college students visit prostitutes relatively infrequently. (2) Various reasons have been suggested for married men visiting prostitutes What functions does a visit to a prostitute serve in the personality economy of the man, and how does he perceive himself and the prostitute? In order to get some answers to these questions, interviews were conducted in five cities in the north-east United States, the smallest of which had a population of 125,000. Two of the cities had a population of over 750,000. Access to the subjects was obtained through several colleges, unions, and fraternal and business organizations, as well as non-organizational sources. The organizations and individuals co-operating in the study acted as intermediaries in locating subjects and engaged in a screening process of their members and friends in order to locate men who would admit visiting a prostitute and who were willing to discuss it. The only requirement for being interviewed was that the subject had visited a prostitute within the preceding six months and was willing to discuss the visit with the investigator, who personally conducted all the interviews. The subjects were not paid for co-operating in the study. It is of course possible that men who are willing to discuss a visit to a prostitute are not representative of the total universe of prostitutes' clients, but the very nature of this universe makes it almost impossible to obtain a probability sample of it.The interviews were conducted over a period of seven years, from 1953 to 1959. They were conducted in various places, with the great majority conducted in restaurants and other informal and non-institutional settings in order to make the interview as non-threatening as possible. The investigator took notes during the interview. A total of 732 men were interviewed, of whom 674 were white and 58 Negro. The age range was from 18 to 61, with an average of 44. Ther...

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Orally communicated jokes reflect trends in American life and help groups manage problems of role, conflict, and power.