A common suggestion in the disability management research literature is that consultative relationships between disability manager specialists and key union personnel can significantly enhance disability management services provided in unionised workplaces. However, the findings of previous knowledge validation studies have indicated that a sizeable proportion of disability managers believe they are under-prepared to provide services in unionised environments. Plausibly, these findings could reflect the dearth of existing outcome studies that expressly describe characteristics associated with the successful provision of disability management services in unionised workplaces. As a first step towards addressing the aforementioned gap in the disability management research literature, the current study reports the results of a Delphi procedure designed to provide information regarding possible factors that impact disability management services provided in unionised workplaces. The goal of the study was to develop a preliminary survey that could be used in subsequent research studies that address disability management best practises. Four thematically classified domains were identified that included: (a) disability managers' and disability management client characteristics, (b) rate of union representatives' participation in disability management services, (c) disability management service characteristics in unionised environments, and (d) disability managers' attitudes regarding working with labour union representatives. Implications of the findings are discussed in terms of rehabilitation counsellor education and development of empirically based disability management practice strategies.
Longitudinal data were analyzed to evaluate prevalence, client demographics, services utilized, and vocational outcomes for persons with co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders within the state-federal vocational rehabilitation (VR) services system. Findings indicate that clients with dual-diagnoses were equally likely to complete vocational services, tended to utilize similar types of services, and had similar service outcomes compared to clients with either a substance use or psychiatric diagnosis. However, the results also suggest possible disparities in the types of services utilized by VR clients with mental health or substance use disorders. Additionally, the findings suggest that procedures related to client assessment as currently practiced within the public rehabilitation services sector underestimate the prevalence of clients with dual-diagnosis. Vocational rehabilitation best practice strategies that include targeted client assessment practices to screen for dual-diagnosis as an element of comprehensive services are discussed.
Despite the readily available discussion on counseling supervision models for over a quarter of a century, there is little attention in the literature with respect to how developmental supervision models align with existential philosophy. One model, The Integrated Developmental Model (IDM), is a robust and well-accepted model of supervision with embedded undertones of existentialism requiring scholarly discussion. The primary goal of this article is to emphasize the parallels between the IDM and Sartre’s philosophical principles of existentialism thereby creating a meaning making framework for supervisors to enhance developmental growth of their supervisees.
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