Describes the wilderness adventure experience for offenders at Santa Fe Mountain Center. The experience can reveal a composite picture of a client's global personality in the way s/he responds to tasks, demands, and stimuli. An example of a client evaluation is provided. (ERB)

The implementation of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team in providing rehabilitative services to discharged cancer patients in an in-home situation is outlined in this article. The characteristics of effective team coordinators, their functions, the nature of their services, and evaluation results are discussed. (Author)

The benefits of wilderness camping for juvenile delinquents are explored. (JD)

Water resistance makes running or walking through waist-deep water more strenuous than when performed under normal conditions; however, the buoyancy of the water reduces the stress on weight-bearing muscles and joints. (MM)

Describes the Pacific Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program (PRCEP) which serves approximately ninety rehabilitation counselors and supervisors plus the administrative and clerical staffs of state agencies and private rehabilitation facilities in Hawaii, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (Author/RK)

A comparison of pre- and postservice earnings of former clients at the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center as one indicator of the success of the vocational rehabilitation training program found that time worked, percentage employed, and earnings were greatest for those who completed the program. (Critiques of Vogel's article by Kaplan and…

Many variations of psychosocial rehabilitation programs and their unclear relationship to the psychosocial rehabilitation construct have increased the probability of threats to construct validity of putative causes, resulting in potential confounding in investigator interpretation. As a minimum, comprehensive and concise operational definitions of…

This study examined attitudes of hearing individuals toward individuals with hearing impairments when the hearing-impaired individual either acknowledged the hearing loss or did not. Hearing subjects preferred speakers when they discussed their hearing loss. Such speakers were also rated more favorably on personality, employability, and…

Describes the technique of psychodrama to facilitate victim empathy with adolescent sexual offenders. Discusses other psychodramatic methods of role training, sociodrama, mirroring, and modeling, and their applications to working with adolescent sexual offenders. Outlines the history of the psychodrama technique's implementation in a…

Explores the effects of a pre-trial diversion program for misdemeanor offenders (N=243). Results indicate that successful completion of the program significantly reduced recidivism among first-time offenders. Nine percent of those completing had further contact with the courts, compared to 39 percent who failed to complete the program. (RJM)

This qualitative study investigates the views of clients with low vision and vision rehabilitation professionals on the involvement of family and friends in group-based rehabilitation programs. Both groups outlined advantages and disadvantages to involving significant others, and it is essential that clients are given the choice. Future work is…

The rapid changes occurring in society requires continuous development and growth in rehabilitation programs so that the needs of handicapped individuals to live in their communities can be met. Program changes are influenced by staff and client mobility, mobility in funding, public demand for accountability, and identity perceptions. (EC)

For the past three years, the Manpower Administration has funded an experimental program called Mutual Agreement Planning (MAP). In this program, prisoners and authorities agree in a written contract exactly what the individual must do in order to be paroled. (Author/HMV)