A study to identify and assess the withdrawal symptoms in adolescents afflicted with cannabis dependence is conducted. Results conclude that withdrawal symptoms of cannabis were present in adolescents seeking treatment for this substance abuse.

Objective: To determine whether employment outcomes of people with disabilities can be predicted by the social-cognitive/attribution theory of stigmatization. Design: Ex post facto design using data mining technique and logistic regression analysis. Participants: Data from 40,585 vocational rehabilitation (VR) consumers were extracted from the…

Indonesia has one of the fastest growing, injecting drugs user-driven, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemics in Asia. Coverage of needle and syringe programs (NSPs), opioid substitution therapy (OST), and antiretroviral treatment (ART) is increasing, but is still low, whereas professional training in addiction medicine is not yet…

DRUMBEAT is a flexible program that combines experiential learning with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and engages young people and adults who may be anxious or resistant to "talk based" therapies. The DRUMBEAT program is taught to young people and adults across Australia in schools, youth services, drug and alcohol rehabilitation…

This article reports from a research study concerning online distance study for competence development of vocational rehabilitation clients. The students included in the study are adults with health problems participating in a rehabilitation process to re-enter into working life. As a group the students are characterized by difficulties, problems…

Because of ongoing neuromaturation, youth with chronic alcohol/substance use disorders (AUD/SUD) are at risk for cognitive decrements during young adulthood. We prospectively examined cognition over 10 years based on AUD/SUD history. Youth (N = 51) with no AUD/SUD history (n = 14), persisting AUD/SUD (n = 18), or remitted AUD/SUD (n = 19) were…

Rehabilitation caseload feasibility in an expanded vocational rehabilitation program was the focus of this study. The general purpose was to investigate the possibility of expanding services to include a wider range of vocationally handicapped persons without lowering the feasibility level of the agency caseload. Two groups of clients received…

This study was designed to develop a conceptual framework or model for the measurement of the professional orientation of rehabilitation counselors. The four orientations identified were: (1) concern for the counselor-client relationship, (2) concern for the client's situation, (3) concern for both relationship and situation or bipolar, and (4)…

This research investigated the capacity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to differentiate multi-disabled persons who had become successfully rehabilitated from those who had not. It was expected that the overall MMPI profile of unsuccessful rehabilitants would reflect a greater degree of psychological maladjustment than…

Recent research findings reveal that punishment and treatment are two independent, unrelated concepts, but they can occur simultaneously and the same activity may even involve both. These findings point to the inaccuracy of previous studies. (Author)

The purpose of this investigation was to assess the feasibility of conceptualizing rehabilitation gain as a single scalable variable. Twenty-seven items from the Wood County Project Test Battery which reflected rehabilitation gain were incorporated into a scale. Items sampled weekly earning, dependency on public assistance, work status, amount of…

Counselors' perceptions of problems encountered in the delivery of rehabilitation services to handicapped persons, were surveyed by the University of Wisconsin's Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute. The survey schedule, based on a twofold concept of the rehabilitation process: (1) characteristics of the counselor, agency, clients and…

This report contains selected papers presented by a group of consulting psychologists and state rehabilitation officials who attended a four-day institute at the University of Florida in 1968. The purpose of the Institute was to permit the two groups to explore the advantages of extending the range of psychological services to clients and…

A report of the rehabilitation services available to disabled civil service employees. (JC)