1. Call for papers

   Announcement Pages: i - i

2. How therapists perceive and treat suicidal patients

   • Linda Gurrister
   • Rosalie A. Kane

   Articles Pages: 3 - 13

3. Training parents as mental health agents

   • Judith Frankel D'Augelli
   • Joan M. Weener

   Articles Pages: 14 - 25

4. Impact of aftercare services on recidivism of mental hospital patients

   • E. Sandra Byers
   • Stanley Cohen
   • D. Dwight Harshbarger

   Articles Pages: 26 - 34

5. Mexican-American mental health service utilization: A critical examination of some proposed variables

   • Manuel Barrera Jr.

   Articles Pages: 35 - 45

6. Development of an aftercare program in a nonmetropolitan area

   • Lyle E. Kantor
   • Donald F. Kausch
   • Linda L. Smith

   Articles Pages: 46 - 53

7. Community mental health services in rural areas: Some practical issues

   • Michael J. Jeffrey
   • Ronald E. Reeve

   Articles Pages: 54 - 62

8. Community characteristics that affect affect hospitalization and rehospitalization rates in a municipal psychiatric hospital

   • Laurence Schweitzer
   • Hugo Kierszenbaum

   Articles Pages: 63 - 73

9. Classified advertising

   Articles Pages: 74 - 76