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Kaiqi Zhou – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2023
Background: Value change is critical for individuals' psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness and disability. Although current value change theories facilitate our understanding of this process, limited interventions have been developed based on these theoretical frameworks. Objective: The purpose of the study is to examine the issues with…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment
Grandon, Karin; Johnson, Whitney – Institute for Educational Leadership, 2020
This toolkit describes how VR professionals can use the VR Learning Lab Model, which Y-TAC developed and field-tested, to promote youth voice and engagement in service systems improvement. Using the VR Learning Lab model, VR agencies can conduct organized activities where young people and adults come together to ask questions to find potential…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Communities of Practice, Out of School Youth, Disabilities
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Gilbride, Dennis; Stensrud, Robert; Bruinekool, Matt – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2018
Background: Over the past 25 years, research has demonstrated the value of the demand-side placement model in increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Objective: The demand-side model is focused on working with businesses (the demand-side) to create systemic change within companies to pull-in consumers, in contrast to a…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Disabilities, Models, Employment Opportunities
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Miller, Alexandra A.; Therrien, William J. – Beyond Behavior, 2018
Youth with disabilities are dramatically overrepresented in the juvenile justice system. These individuals have poorer outcomes compared with their nondisabled peers regarding school graduation, employment, and recidivism. This discussion article explores issues related to transition and outlines research-based practices aimed at increasing…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Juvenile Justice
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Fleming, Allison R.; Phillips, Brian N.; Hakun, Jonathan G.; Southwick, Joshua D. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2018
Background: Psychological Capital (PsyCap) is a prominent, well-established model of psychosocial strengths in the organizational positive psychology literature. PsyCap is a higher order construct consisting of hope, optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy that has been identified as a powerful predictor of work-related outcomes, with strong…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Disabilities, Psychological Characteristics, Adults
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Smedema, Susan Miller; Kesselmayer, Rachel Friefeld; Peterson, Lauren – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2018
Purpose: To test a meditation model of the relationship between core self-evaluations (CSE) and job satisfaction in employed individuals with disabilities. Method: A quantitative descriptive design using Hayes's (2012) PROCESS macro for SPSS and multiple regression analysis. Two-hundred fifty-nine employed persons with disabilities were recruited…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Job Satisfaction, Employees, Disabilities
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Fleming, Allison R.; Del Valle, Roy; Kim, Muwoong; Leahy, Michael J. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2013
Rehabilitation counselors and practitioners are under increased pressure to adopt and pursue evidenced-based practices, and the rehabilitation counseling literature has been criticized for a lack of empirical work providing support for individual-level interventions. The purpose of this literature review was to examine the last 25 years of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evidence, Rehabilitation Counseling, Counselors
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Lewicki, Todd – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2015
Purpose: In this article, I explore how the therapeutic alliance, along with culturally competent and adapted skill use can be positively correlated with treatment outcome when using the ecological validity model as the frame. The ecological validity model refers to the degree to which there is consistency between the environment as experienced by…
Descriptors: Counselor Client Relationship, Cultural Awareness, Adjustment (to Environment), Skills
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Livneh, Hanoch; Bishop, Malachy; Anctil, Tina M. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2014
Purpose: In this article, we describe how four recent models of psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness and disability (CID) could be fruitfully conceptualized and compared by resorting to the general framework of Lewin's field theory--a theory frequently regarded as a precursor and the primary impetus to the development of the field of…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Disabilities, Models, Individual Development
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Zhang, Wei; Yan, Ting Ting; Barriball, K. Louise; While, Alison E.; Liu, Xiao Hong – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
While the adverse effects of raising a child with autism are well demonstrated, there have been few reports of the post-traumatic growth of mothers of children with autism. The purpose of this research was to explore dimensions of post-traumatic growth in this population in Mainland China and identify the factors facilitating post-traumatic…
Descriptors: Mothers, Autism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Children
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O'Sullivan, Deirdre; Strauser, David R.; Wong, Alex W. K. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2012
With the continued lower employment rate for persons with disabilities, researchers are focusing more on barriers to employment that reach beyond functional impairment. Personality and self-efficacy have consistently been important factors when considering employment outcomes for persons without disability; less is known about these factors as…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Employment, Self Efficacy, Disabilities
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Cumming, Therese M.; Strnadová, Iva; Dowse, Leanne – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
The largest population of youth at risk for involvement in the juvenile justice system are those with disabilities and mental illness. There has been scant research into the pathways that these students take from home, school and the community to involvement in the justice system in Australia. This paper utilises insights from critical disability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Youth Programs, Youth Opportunities
Hankins, Adrian Bentley – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In Minnesota's workers' compensation system, injured employees at risk for sustaining permanent disability may be eligible for receipt of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services if they are determined to be capable of benefitting from such services. VR services can be a valuable resource to injured employees who need assistance minimizing their…
Descriptors: Reentry Workers, Injuries, Workers Compensation, Disabilities
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Majid, Shaista; Razzak, Adeela – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015
This study was conducted to designing a model of vocational training programs for disables. For this purpose desk review was carried out and the vocational training models/programs of Israel, U.K., Vietnam, Japan and Thailand were analyzed to form a conceptual framework of the model. Keeping in view the local conditions/requirements a model of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Models, Vocational Education
Katz, Robin Fran – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Prevocational and vocational training are interventions that are widely recognized as personally satisfying forms of occupation that can increase self-determination and employability while improving a person's health and well-being. In recent years a related intervention, structured peer mentoring, has been associated with increased community…
Descriptors: Mentors, Jews, Volunteers, Intervention
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