Twenty-five patients with mild mental retardation were compared with 26 schizophrenic patients of normal intelligence. The patients with retardation had suffered an earlier onset and were less likely to have been married or employed. However, the clinical phenomena exhibited by the two groups, as elicited by a SADS-L interview, were very similar. Thus, standardised interviews and criteria for schizophrenia can be readily applied to those with an IQ between 50 and 70.

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There are many professionals who are predicting the eventual demise of community mental health because of a failure to develop a relevant conceptual model for community intervention. It remains the position of this paper that behavior theory offers the potential for conceptualizing the individual's interaction with his environment. Further, the behaviorally oriented mental health worker has several choices of intervention available to him. These models or choices are described and recommendations for the enhancement of community mental health service delivery are presented 9 9 . . the promise of community mental health as an instrument for social change has steadily declined from the time it was first proclaimed as a revolution. Not because the revolutionary ardor of those individuals who are in community mental health has cooled, but becaue theoretically and technologically it does not provide a conceptual framework for changes in the social order [Rieff, 1971].

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