Proposes a model that identifies four elements contributing to coping that can be disrupted by disability and the type of intervention that each affected element may require: restoring or replacing assets and skills; reintegrating the self-image; reformulating goals; and restructuring the environment. Discusses functions of rehabilitation…

Presents a reformulation of Hershenson's theoretical model for rehabilitation counseling in systemic and ecological terms. This macrosystem is organized by precipitating event of disability and is composed of four systems: consumer, functional, provider, and contextual. Discusses the use of the model for selecting rehabilitation interventions…

Rehabilitation counselor education has shifted its curriculum and focus to conform to changes in federal policy as a means of gaining federal training funds. Changes have jeopardized rehabilitation counseling's identity and status as independent profession. Rehabilitation counselor education must reassert the field's competence in the area of…

Investigates the degree to which cultural anthropology's concepts, theories, and methods have been applied to the understanding and conceptualization of disability and rehabilitation as a cultural phenomenon. Reviews the literature of anthropology and the literature of disability and rehabilitation. Results revealed that a lot of anthropologists'…

This article suggests that a disabled class is useful to society in maintaining certain social arrangements. Consequently, the rehabilitation counselor may unwittingly play unexpected roles that facilitate the social utility of the disabled and the authors suggest possibilities for altering these roles. (Author)

Notes, when client, counselor, and those in client's relevant environments hold differing conceptions of disability, and hence conflicting expectations of the rehabilitation process, that process may be impeded. Proposes an approach to conceptualizing this potential problem using Hershenson's model of faith, logic, and power as successive…

It is concluded that rehabilitaition counseling is most relevant in a cultural context that is sufficiently affluent to tolerate deviance and that has sufficient work role for the counselor. Speculations are made on the counselor's role in a posttechnological culture. (Author)

Presents a model of work adjustment consisting of work personality, work competencies, and work goals. Appropriate interventions include restoration of work-related skills, remotivation to address the impact of disability on work personality, and restructuring of work goals as necessitated by the handicap. (Author/JAC)

The purpose of this paper is to suggest an alternative conceptual model for the evaluation process, one which focuses on the client's assets while recognizing, but not emphasizing, the limitations imposed by the disabling condition. (Author)

Presents a reformulation of a developmental model of work adjustment for persons with disabilities. The model has been put into a systems format in response to criticism of an earlier model. It is intended that this model modification will provide a more comprehensive and more useful formulation for work adjustment. (RJM)