A follow-up study assessed the relationship between selected counseling process variables and job-seeking activities. Processes related minimally to outcome measures. Only client demographics related consistently to job seeking. Findings suggest that outcomes are multidimensional. (Author)

Results indicate that costs of the rehabilitation center can be counted in dollars saved by keeping the patient at home instead of in the hospital. Treatment effectiveness, social improvement of patients, and benefits to family and friends cannot be counted in monetary terms. (JAC)

Reports the evaluation of a 15-week parent education program in a state prison for women. Results indicate a positive increase in self-esteem and significant positive changes in parenting attitudes. Participants claimed that the program helped them improve interactions with their children on visitation and in their communication through letters.…

This paper reviews the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Program at Coastline Community College (California). The ABI Program is a two-year, for-credit educational curriculum designed to provide structured cognitive retraining for adults who have sustained an ABI due to traumatic (such as motor vehicle accident or fall) or non-traumatic(such as…

The Valley View Illinois Youth Center developed a community college program, Prevocational Orientation and Guidance Program for Juvenile Offenders, structured around four components: vocational exposure classes; industrial field trips; job seeking skills development sessions; and individual vocational counseling. Program effectiveness is evaluated…

To assess the educational and employment experiences of youths after exposure to New York's Division for Youth (DFY) rehabilitation services, the incidence of criminal recidivism, and the extent to which program exposure (secure/noncommunity, or community-based) affects youths' post-program, criminal, educational, and employment experiences, 771…

A typology is constructed which orders correctional organizations into 8 types along 3 dimensions: goal orientation, organizational scope, and decision making. (Author/KM)

Presents an example of how accountability was built into a family oriented aftercare program for former mental patients by identifying populations at risk as target groups, evaluating the effect of the program on the target populations, and showing that the program had an effect not possible by already existing resources. (Author)

For several years, the Federal government of the United States has supported programs that employ and teach skills to disadvantaged workers, especially disadvantaged youth. By concentrating on serving youth, such programs have neglected disadvantaged adults, for whom such programs may often be more effective. This assertion is based on an…

A program of computer-assisted instruction (CAI), using the Radio Shack TRS-80, was tried at Eagleville (Pennsylvania) Hospital and Training Center for adult alcoholics and drug abusers. Most of the students using the program had extremely low reading levels and little success with schools; a majority had been in trouble with the law. It was hoped…

This report evaluates year-long wilderness camping rehabilitation program for juvenile delinquents believed "emotionally problemed." The remote camps teach through an experience curriculum encompassing daily camping style tasks, with integration of experience via three-day home visits every six weeks followed by written reports by…

This manual describes a Relaxation-Information Presentation program based on the clinical observation that anxiety is a serious barrier to detoxification for many methadone clients, and on experimental evidence indicating that expectations may play a greater role in the discomfort experienced during detoxification than the actual methadone dose.…

The five papers in this symposium address several key issues included in evaluation research. In "Designing State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Evaluation Research", Stanford E. Rubin discusses the importance of practitioner involvement in the development of research questions and plans and introduces three basic models of evaluative research.…

In October 1999, National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC), in cooperation with the Office of Justice Programs, Drug Courts Program Office and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, developed and distributed a questionnaire designed to describe substance abuse…

The Finnish system for persons injured at work or contracting industrial diseases is compared before and after legislative changes made in 1982, focusing on rehabilitation client selection, rehabilitation method effectiveness, and long-term vocational and economic outcomes. Data concerning longer term outcomes demonstrate that rehabilitation is…