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Article: Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at a Distance: Challenges, Strategies and Ethics to Consider.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Today's vocational rehabilitation counselors are faced with many challenges that have an impact on the services they provide (Leahy & Szymanski, 1995). One challenge involves providing vocational rehabilitation services to consumers residing in rural areas. This task is significant, as 15 million Americans with disabilities live in rural areas (Seekins, Jackson, & Offner, 1993). Counselors must undergo extensive, time-consuming travel to provide services for these consumers. However, for these consumers to travel to frequent appointments at centrally-located vocational rehabilitation agencies is also inconvenient and expensive. Furthermore, people with disabilities living ...