Focused on the relationship between supervisors' structuring (task orientation) and consideration (relationship orientation) behaviors and job satisfation, stress, and health problems of 78 rehabilitation workers. Higher job satisfaction and lower stress were related to high supervisor consideration. More health problems were reported when…

As part of a state residential center's 16-week training program to assist blind adults, aged 16-65, in acquiring employability skills, clients receive hands-on training in mastering the IBM Memory 100 Audio Unit typewriter. Training includes assessing prerequisite secretarial skills, using self-instructional materials, and evaluating performance.…

Examined were the effects on selected adjustment criterion measures of 1 year of maximum, moderate, or minimum rehabilitation treatment with 113 cerebral palsied adults (mean age =28) having a wide range of physical and intellectual abilities. (IM)

This brief directory lists 39 American Indian vocational rehabilitation services programs in 16 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington. Each listed program contains tribal name, name of director,…

A self-help project called Concept Associates, Inc., was started at Parish Prison in New Orleans. While most penal rehabilitation programs educate inmates and teach them a trade, the work of Concept is more thorough. The inmates aid each other with their problems by concentrating on inner changes and the power of positive thinking through four…

This article suggests a structure for determining some specific goals of adjustment services and discusses the definition, objectives, merits, and problems pertaining to six general adjustment techniques that are felt to be appropriate for use in rehabilitation facilities. (Author)

La Mirada's RAP program is conceived on the notion that the only way to help young drug users is to get them to help themselves. When it becomes uncool'' to take drugs, they're likely to want to get off drugs. That's when the serious talking begins. (Author)

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) has a unique educational program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. (MU)

A rehabilitation project at the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury which provided job training for inmates in such occupations as maintenance men, farmhands, cook helpers, and general maids. (BC)

Collier School in Wickatunk, N.J., attempts to educate and to rehabilitate adolescent girls suffering from emotional disorders. (MF)

This unusual Distributive Education program is designed specifically to rehabilitate ghetto dropouts with full-time jobs during the day and evening classes. (SB)

The park and recreation profession can make a major contribution to the improvement and maintenance of the physical and mental health of community members through a training program for cardiac wellness. The Cardiac Wellness Training Project, designed to help park and recreation professionals develop cardiac prevention and rehabilitation programs,…

The synopsis describes development by the Mississippi Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind Agency of a data processing system to improve service delivery for clients and enhance the cost-effectiveness of agency resources. (Author/MC)