No abstract

No abstract

Existing research has indicated an association between resilience and psychosocial adjustment to disability. The purpose of this study was to validate the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) in a sample of vocational rehabilitation (VR) consumers. Participants were 277 individuals with disabilities receiving state VR services. Findings support the identification of two factors in the BRS, labeled succumbing and resilience by the researchers. The succumbing factor was positively associated with reporting of depression while the resilience factor was associated with well-being. Implications for practice in state VR agencies are provided.

Client demographic and VR service-related variables significantly predict competitive employment outcomes for transition-age youth with traumatic brain injuries. Vocational rehabilitation services should focus on the specific interventions that are most closely associated with successful rehabilitation.

Peer‐mediated interventions (PMIs) have been shown to be effective for increasing adaptive social and academic behaviours of children and youth. Although PMI efficacy is generally well supported, there have been relatively few published intervention studies that focus on elementary, middle and high school students with emotional and behavioural disorders (EBD). The present review examines selected empirical literature in order to identify characteristics and relative efficacy of PMI. Findings of 12 peer‐reviewed journal papers including research designs and outcomes were examined. Results provide support for the efficacy of PMI for improving behavioural and social skills of students with EBD. Recommendations include further research on PMI for high school students and longitudinal research of PMI.

This study provided support for the reliability and validity of T-PSS-10 suggesting that it can be used as a screening instrument by health professionals working with Turkish college students.

Empowering individuals to actively engage in their own treatment is increasingly considered a cornerstone of highquality health care and rehabilitation services (Barello,

The concept of stigma, in the context of physical and sensory disabilities, is typically anchored within the larger body of theoretical, clinical, and empirical literature termed attitudes toward people with disabilities. In the present context, physical disabilities (e.g., spinal cord injury, amputation, cancer, cerebral palsy) and sensory disabilities (e.g., blindness, deafness) are regarded as medical conditions that involve both impairments and functional limitations to the body itself or to its sensory apparatuses, respectively. The latter can be traced back to the 1940s and the earlier attempts to measure attitudes toward people whose physique and sensory apparatus were compromised by various medical conditions (Antonak & Livneh, 1988;Yuker & Block, 1986).