This study examines factors affecting vocational outcomes in the vocational rehabilitation process for individuals experiencing psychiatric disabilities who had received state vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. A data mining approach was used to analyze the Rehabilitation Services Administration FY 2001 Case Service Report (RSA-911). Receiving job placement services was found to be the most important variable differentiating individuals who were working from those who were not working. Results regarding vocational outcomes suggest a positive effect for persons receiving job placement services.
Resilience is a topic of growing interest with significant momentum generated by the Positive Psychology Movement. While resilience has been discussed at the graduate level and beyond, few articles seem to openly discuss how it is addressed as a part of undergraduate rehabilitation service programs. Discussion and careful consideration is needed as many undergraduates work in direct services. This article is designed to help rehabilitation educators and professionals understand the application and value of resilience and resilience-based skills as a part of the undergraduate rehabilitation curriculum. Article content addresses resilience, benefits of resilience, resilience-based factors, and the applicability of resilience to professionals and to the people they serve. Suggestions are provided to illustrate ways undergraduate programs can integrate resilience into their curriculum.
Forgiveness and self-forgiveness is an area of growing interest in the allied helping professions. In recent years, the study of forgiveness has been expanded to a number of different populations. However, forgiveness as a construct, a model of understanding to cope with difficult and hurtful people, and as an intervention has not been fully considered and explored in the rehabilitation counseling profession. To help rehabilitation counseling professionals better understand the importance of forgiveness as it relates to disability, this article explains the meaning of forgiveness and self-forgiveness, barriers that inhibit the development of forgiveness, models of forgiveness, and empirical research supporting the utility of forgiveness. Following this, professionals are given information about how forgiveness may relate to the needs of persons with disabilities and professional implications for practice.
Throughout the past 25 years, forgiveness has been a part of psychology and studied within many populations. However, forgiveness has not been considered nor promoted as a helpful skill or approach when counseling persons with disabilities or in the rehabilitation counseling/psychology profession at large. In an effort to change this trend by educating the profession on the importance and relevance of forgiveness to the practice of rehabilitation psychology, readers are afforded the opportunity to learn about forgiveness, its application and relevance to persons with disabilities, and to further their understanding of how forgiveness can be conceptualized and explored. Provided in this article is a proposed forgiveness model which can be used to assist professionals in the exploration of forgiveness among the people they serve. Following this model is an applied case study and professional implications.
Issues experienced by women with disabilitiesExperiences of women with disabilities are scantly discussed throughout the literature. Much of the information that exists is dated and was conducted by women living with a disability or researchers interested in promoting the understanding and support needs of women with disabilities. [10][11][12][13] Despite this lack of prioritizing women with disabilities throughout the research, scholars continue to inform and educate us about the needs and experiences of women with disabilities. 8,14-17 Currently, women with disabilities continue to face several challenging and difficult experiences that often compound the experience of living with a disability and the coping process.Similar to men with disabilities, women encounter unemployment/ underemployment, negative societal biases and perceptions, changes in social and family support, health insurance and financial concerns, environmental and architectural barriers, peoples' disregard for their personal boundaries, and lowered expectations, yet, at the same time, women with disabilities are exposed to additional layers of stress compared to their male counterparts. More specifically, women with disabilities experience a substantial amount of lowered societal expectations regarding their worth and abilities, 13,15,18 and are viewed as "doubly-or triply stigmatized" due to living with a disability. This stigmatization contributes to women with disabilities being viewed as "one of the most disadvantaged groups of individuals". 15 Furthermore, women with disabilities are at greater risk of (a) health discrepancies
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