The handbook for vocational rehabilitation is the result of an effort to review the literature on program evaluation, organize it, and reduce it to usable form. Taking the position that the purposes of program evaluation are to determine what are the best programs and why, to suggest ways to strengthen existing programs, and to suggest new ways to…

This self-study and evaluation guide on rehabilitation teaching services is one of 28 guides designed for organizations who are undertaking a self-study as part of the process for accreditation from the National Accreditation Council (NAC) for agencies serving the blind and visually handicapped. Provided are lists of standards to be appraised by…

The training phase of a rehabilitation program for football players who have sustained lower back injuries proceeds after the pain-control phase, and seeks to minimize risk of reinjury. This phase emphasizes movement training and exercise for strengthening abdominal muscles to stabilize the lumbar spine. A removable exercise guide is included.…

In addition to eliminating illicit drug use, rehabilitation programs must help clients find both a meaningful way to spend the time that was formerly spent hustling money for drugs and a legitimate way to earn the money that was formerly provided by hustling. One solution to both these problems is to help ex-addicts make the transition to…

This is the second of two supplements to a manual on the self-evaluation of drug abuse treatment programs. Data based on treatment outcome information that agencies and clinics routinely collect or have available in the files of individual clients are presented. While it is possible to use this volume without referring to the discussion of…

The Division of Resource Development of the National Institute on Drug Abuse is giving increasing emphasis to the needs and concerns of women, both in treatment and as workers in the field. Recently there has also been increased interest in the problems of the female substance abuser on the part of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health…

The communication course presented in this document was developed as it was being offered at correctional centers throughout North Carolina from the fall of 1971 through the spring of 1976. The document contains 12 "encounters," or lessons, each of which discusses behavioral objectives, physical facilities, general advice, the time…

This document contains five papers about resources, support systems, and advocacy presented at a national conference about the nonwhite disabled. The papers and authors are: (1) "A College-Based Rehabilitation Training Program for Working with the Nonwhite Disabled" (C. D. Sanders)--program components include attention to sensitivity training,…

The State guide provides rehabilitation personnel with guidelines for structuring and implementing adjustment programs to prepare clients to become more adequately functioning community members. Part 1 discusses objectives, general techniques, and learning/motivation principles. Appropriate techniques include: individual counseling, group…

The monograph advances a conceptual framework for the evaluation of mental health services provided to chronically mentally ill persons by psychosocial rehabilitation programs. Evaluation mechanisms consistent with the philosophy and programmatic aims of psychosocial rehabilitation programs are identified. An introductory section provides a brief…

The document is a basic guide for planning and organizing a sheltered workshop, a work-oriented rehabilitation facility with a controlled working environment and individual vocational goals. The workshop utilizes work experience and related services to help the mentally retarded person progress toward normal living and a productive vocational…

The guide contains basic information for establishing a work activity center, a work-oriented facility providing compensatory pre-vocational and vocational education and training programs for men and women of post-school age. The center serves those mentally retarded adults not developmentally prepared to enter a sheltered workshop program. The…

The sourcebook is the result of the first major, nationwide research project designed to produce detailed information on how various inmate training programs are implemented, financed, and operated. Most of the book is devoted to reports on individual training programs operating in correctional institutions, or serving inmate-students in outside…