A 1973 survey of 50 health professionals from the Indian Health Services in the Phoenix area indicated that the respondents felt generally positive about both their alcoholism treatment program and clients. Available from: White Cloud Center, Gaines Hall UOHSC, 840 Southwest Gaines Road, Portland, OR 97201. (CM)

Problems related to the evaluation of rehabilitation agencies and rehabilitation education programs are reviewed. Questioned are the assumptions that even shoddy evaluation is better than nothing and that the consumer is one of the best sources of evaluation data. Corruption of data and selective or distorted reporting of results are discussed.…

Data indicated that drinking and other outcome measures were only moderately interrelated in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. Outcome at the group level was somewhat better six months after treatment than it was 18 months later. (Author)

The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific (REHAB) is a highly-specialized medical hospital dedicated to the rehabilitation of the handicapped. Its primary concern is with the care of neurological, orthopedic, or cardiovascular conditions which result in physical impairment. Discusses its personnel, goals, and services. (Author/RK)

Describes personal, social, and political factors contributing toward youth crime upsurge in China since 1960. Describes "Bang-Jab" youth delinquency rehabilitation approach which relies on community system of support to bolster youth's self-esteem and financial security. Argues that bang-jab volunteers understand conditions in their…

Analyzed daily functions of supported employment program managers (n=30) in Virginia as first step in determining competencies to be addressed in supported employment manager training programs. Found program managers engaged in planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling, and divided their time between administrative and direct…

The Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind is primarily responsible for services to visually impaired people in New Zealand. The article describes its history, structure, services, and plans for the future. (Author/JDD)

Authors discuss demand-side job development as a model for improving and providing rehabilitation services to consumers and employers. It stresses quality employment outcomes, consumer choice and empowerment, and a productive partnership between consumer and counselor. Delineates systemic challenges this model poses to traditional vocational…

The purpose was to examine psychosocial factors that influence the physical activity behaviors of adults with brain injuries. Two differing models, based on Harter's model of self-worth, were proposed to examine the relationship between perceived competence, social support, physical self-worth, affect, and motivation. Adults numbering 384 with…

Background: This paper considers some economic aspects of a therapy and support service for people with stroke and aphasia. This material was part of a broader evaluation of the service, which is reported elsewhere (van der Gaag et al. 2005, van der Gaag and Mowles 2005). Aims: The purpose of this part of the study was to investigate the…

Post-injury vocational achievement is an important index of successful rehabilitation. This study involved the identification of factors reported to influence (positively or negatively) labour force participation of people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Forty participants were selected from a larger study of 450 based on the most extreme…

This study assesses the psychometric properties of the Condom Barriers Scale (CBS), an instrument originally designed to measure women's perceptions and attitudes regarding male condom use, with a sample of men at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Participants include 590 male patients in drug abuse treatment involved in a…

The Commonwealth of Virginia, as with other states, operates a panoply of programs whose objectives, either directly or indirectly, are to develop the state's workforce. Some programs enhance the skills of Virginians through training or formal education; whereas other programs, such as the Employment Service, attempt to facilitate the employment…

Juvenile crime threatens the immediate safety and well-being of its victims. The cost of processing and punishing the offender takes money from more productive purposes. If the juvenile offender either continues a life of crime or otherwise drops out of the lawful economy, the cost to the community is a long-term burden. In the early 1970s, many…

Psychic battering can be defined as a continual condition of conflict-inducing happenings. In some professions that are high in psychic battering, mechanisms for accommodating battering are reinforced over time and become ingrained into the personality's modus operandi. A police officer can develop a conditioned emotional response which has as a…