Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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And so, the present labor force is totally inadequate. To temporarily plug the secretarial gap, the Personnel Office has offered to send otherwise competent applicants to typing school and to give dictaphones to any professors who will accept them in place of secretaries. "No one seems very eager to take...
"We will try to determine whether college students are a valuable untapped resource in the 'treatment' of the mentally ill," project director David Kantor stated. The PBH inquiry will follow three main lines:
* The project will first attempt to discover the effects of volunteer workers upon mental hospital patients. A professional psychologist has investigated individual patients; he will make a re-evaluation at the end of the year to discover the volunteers' effect upon patients. In this "case aid" part of the PBH...
* Researchers will also try to ascertain the effect of volunteers upon the hospital as a whole. Some students will work with entire wards, trying to cheer patients and help them regain self-esteem. A sociologist has started to study selected wards, and his investigation will be repeated after the volunteers...
* The research grant finally permits investigation of the attitudes of individual students. Volunteers for the mental hospital program must fill out a comprehensive questionnaire, 80 minutes long, both before and after working with disturbed patients. The results will be analyzed to find out the attributes of the most effective volunteers...