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Delivery of mental health services in rural areas is a serious problem. A project to develop and assess a particular pattern of rural mental health services was started in two North Carolina counties. As part of this project a survey was made of the attitudes and opinions of rural people concerning mental illness, mental health professionals, and related services. The results are reported in this paper.

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Training centers are moving toward incorporating community mental health into their programs. This article describes the community component of a medical-school-based psychology internship program. The community program is based in three rural counties and affords the intern preplacement training as well as direct field training. The program involves one day a week for 12 months in one setting and a second day a week for three months in another. Field training focuses on crisis intervention and short-term treatment approaches, individual, group, and agency consultation, formal and informal community education experiences, and both program development and program evaluation.

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