Recently added articles from The Journal of Rehabilitation:
The power of models of disability.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Much of the way in which rehabilitation practitioners, educators, and researchers undertake their work is guided by the model of disability to which they subscribe (Harper, 1991; Tate & Pledger, 2003). Models of disability define disability, determine casual and responsibility ...
Enhancing service delivery to minority farmers: VR counselors' perceptions and recommendations.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Minority farmers in the Mississippi Delta are among the poorest people in the United States. Being a minority _farmer is a quadruple health disadvantage. First, farmers live in rural areas where it is more difficult to provide or access services (Larsen & Foley, 1992; Lishner, Richardson, ...
One hundred words about disability.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... There exists a plethora of literature regarding disability issues across a wide spectrum of researcher interests. Our field continues to be well researched in many areas, including societal attitudes (Antonak & Livneh, 2000; Marinelli & Dell Orto,1999), employment discrimination (Baldwin & ...
Differences in predictors of self-rated health among people with and without a disability.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Self-rated health (SRH) is widely recognized as a significant measure of the overall global health of an individual and has been researched for over 40 years. One of the more consistent findings in SRH research is its predictive ability of mortality and survival (Benyamini & Idler, 1999; ...
Person-centered employment planning teams: a demonstration project to enhance employment and training outcomes for persons with disabilities accessing the One-Stop Career Center system.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The One-Stop Career Center, more commonly known within the lay community as the Unemployment Office has been significantly re-engineered over the past 10 years in an effort to provide all Americans with a seamless continuum of employment and training services delivered by state, county and ...
Life satisfaction among people with progressive disabilities.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Life satisfaction is a construct widely used in psychosocial, medical, and theological studies to evaluate an individual's perceived well-being. A substantial amount of research has been conducted to measure quality of life among people with disabilities from external (e.g., income, ...
Psychiatric Rehabilitation (2nd ed.).(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Psychiatric Rehabilitation (2nd ed.) Carlos W. Pratt, Kenneth J. Gill, Nora M. Barrett, & Melissa M. Roberts New York: Elsevier Academic Press 2007, 458 pages, ISBN 978-0-12-564431-0 $69.95 Given the number of people with psychiatric ...
The relationship of race and disability to life satisfaction in the United States.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Life satisfaction is an important concept as it has been widely considered to be a central aspect of human welfare (Haybron, 2005). It has been further defined as having a favorable attitude toward one's life as a whole. Sumner (1996) states that central to life satisfaction is, "a ...
Coordination of postsecondary transition services for students with disabilities.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Postsecondary education is the gateway to the acquisition of a wide variety of marketable skills for high school graduates. Despite the steadily increasing cost of education and somewhat disheartening transition process (especially for those with disabilities), college education is worth ...
An exploration of the costs of services funded by vocational rehabilitation.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In eras when fiscal resources become constrained, policymakers and politicians often place increasing emphasis on evaluating human service programs by the costs they generate (Boardman, Greenberg, Vining, & Weimer, 2006). This is typically done through "cost-effectiveness analyses." Such ...
Empowerment variables as predictors of outcomes in rehabilitation.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Outcome assessment was made a focus in rehabilitation counseling in the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1973, in which rehabilitation programs were required to show that they could effectively and efficiently meet service outcome goals (Rubin & Roessler, 2001). In subsequent years, this ...
Professional jobs and hearing loss: a comparison of deaf and hard of hearing consumers.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Labor force trends in the United States reveal interesting patterns that are important for vocational rehabilitation (VR). Employment statistics in April of the new millennium reflected almost 130 million U.S. workers who were at least 16 years of age employed across six occupational ...
Differences in perceptions of career barriers and supports for people with disabilities by demographic, background and case status factors.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... people with disabilities encounter a number of barriers as they make the decision to enter or re-enter the workplace. Some of these barriers might be described as external as they involve environmental and workplace supports such as transportation, accommodations, and job opportunities ...
A survey of threats received by rehabilitation counselors in Montana.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... There is growing awareness that individuals who serve the public are exposed to a variety of dangers present in the workplace (Aterburn, 1996; Farmer, 1990; Ross, Leon, & Johnson, 1995; Smallwood, 2002; Stader, 2001; Wilson & Cox, 2001). One area of special concern is the incidence of ...
An examination of factors contributing to public rehabilitation counselors' involvement in job placement and development activities.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Job placement and development has been identified as one of the essential roles and functions of the rehabilitation counselor (Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification, 2003; Emener & Rubin, 1980; Leahy, Chan, & Saunders, 2003; Roessler & Rubin, 1992). Despite the prominence of ...
User-friendly motivational interviewing and evidence-based supported employment tools for practitioners.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Individuals with psychiatric disabilities maintain 10% to 15% employment rates and report shorter job retention rates when compared to the general population (Anthony, Cohen, Farkas, & Gagen, 2002; Bricout, 2002; National Alliance for Mental Illness [NAMI], 2004). Despite low employment ...
Counseling people living with diabetes.(Clinical report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... In the United States, 14.6 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes and an estimated 6.2 million more people have the disease but are undiagnosed. In addition, 54 million adults are estimated to have pre-diabetes, which places them at risk for developing diabetes (Centers for ...
End the silence: a survey of abuse against men with disabilities.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... A growing body of research suggests violence and abuse are serious problems for women with disabilities, who are at greater risk than non-disabled women (Brown, Stein, & Turk, 1995; Curry, Powers & Oschwald, 2003; Hassouneh-Phillips & Curry, 2002; Hughes, Swedlund, Petersen & Nosek, 2001; ...
Abuse and health in individuals with spinal cord injury and dysfunction.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Individuals with spinal cord injury and dysfunction (SCI/D) are at risk for abuse in multiple and complex ways. This population experiences abuse from many sources, including but not limited to, intimate partners, caregivers, and health care providers (Hassouneh-Phillips, 2003; ...
Adult sibling caregiving for persons with traumatic brain injury: predictors of affective and instrumental support.
Jul 01, 2008; ... The sibling bond is unique among family relationships (Pruchno, Patrick, & Burant, 1996; Seltzer, 1989). Sibling relationships are ascribed and not subject to individual choice. With the exception of adoption, siblings automatically share common genetic, cultural, and environmental ...