Highlights of the Annual Conference (20th): Veterans Administration Studies in Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, April 9-11, 1975

摘要

This document contains highlights from the Veterans Administration (VA) Studies in Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences 20th Annual Conference. Included are symposia on the following subjects: the application of behavioral principles to treatment of medical and psychiatric problems; substance abuse disorders; sexuality, the practitioner, and the patient; ethical issues; innovative therapeutic developments; and VA cooperative studies program. Also included are summaries of teaching seminars covering such topics as family therapy, suicide prevention in the hospital, behavioral management of pain, and developing community health programs. The keynote address, presented by Dr. Neal Miller, Professor of Psychology and Head of a Laboratory of Physiological Psychology at The Rockefeller University, is on the applications of learning and biofeedback to medicine and psychiatry.