Describes a new type of program which was conducted in a group and stressed distinctive techniques as mutual-assistance among job seekers, a "buddy" system, family support, and sharing of job leads. Results indicate 90 percent of counseled job seekers obtained employment versus 55 percent of noncounseled job seekers. (Author)

Describes the Rehabilitation Evaluation and Adjustment Facility, designed to create and offer effective strategies for vocational/psychological evaluation and personal adjustment of disabled individuals. (Author/RK)

This report of the Committee on National Needs for the Rehabilitation of the Physically Handicapped focuses on the current problems in the field, the areas in which additional knowledge is needed, and directions in which the society and government should move both with respect to the acquisition of knowledge and a more effective organization of…

Job Seeker's Aids is a step-by-step procedure that can be used by rehabilitation counselors to help clients locate and visit manufacturing, institutional, and other places of employment for the purpose of identifying and applying for job openings. (Author)

Gestalt therapy is an existential helping approach that assumes human beings have the potential to choose their behavior and thus define their own meaning in life. Applying Gestalt theory, disabled persons can define the meaning of the disability to their total person. (Author)

This paper describes the development and implementation of a selective job-placement system in the Michigan Vocational Rehabilitation agency. A number of specialized units in the system were created to facilitate both job development and job placement. (Author)

Special provisions are made for handicapped students in terms of curriculum and elimination of structural barriers in order to facilitate their preparation for a profession through a college education. Program has served as a successful precedent for other educational institutions. (TA)

This article describes a new Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute at George Washington University and gives a conceptual framework and some aspects of the research methodology. The theme of the Institute is "Barriers to the Disabled: Attitudinal, Legal, and Leisure." (Author)

This article describes experiences with Personal Achievement Skills (PAS), a group counseling process in a spinal cord injury project, emphasizing training in communication and goal setting in the context of group process. Issues in conducting such training and providing comprehensive service to the spinal cord injured are discussed in detail.…

This article describes a transitional living facility at Craig Hospital, Rocky Mountain Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center in Englewood, Colorado. This program has resulted in gains in self-concept, skills, family awareness, social-psychological adjustment to disability, and lowered costs associated with outpatient status for severely disabled…

Principles of social perception that undermine the situation of persons with disabilities are examined with a view to proposing safeguards against their destructive potential. They are considered within three main topics: (a) person versus environmental attribution, (b) spread and the coping-succumbing frameworks, and (c) co-management and the…

Describes cooperative planning among a non-profit metropolitan tuberculosis sanitorium, a state vocational rehabilitation service and a medical center to provide a comprehensive rehabilitation program at Lakeshore Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama. (Author/EJT)

This article discusses a comprehensive community service delivery system, The Center for Independent Living (CIL), for the severely disabled in which services are geared toward independent living and consciousness raising. Self-help and peer counseling are seen as major methods of service assistance. (Author)

Operating under the assumption that: (1) state agencies routinely collect large amounts of data; (2) these data possess significant potential for evaluating VR programs; and (3) the program evaluation potential of these data has been largely untapped, the W. Va. Research and Training Center has been developing techniques for evaluating…

Describes the Human Resources Center at Albertson, Long Island. Outlines the various aspects of the Center's program including the placement process, developing job seeking skills and the relations of the Center with employers and companies. (EJT)