Investigates the significance of social and environmental factors as predictors of the rehabilitative potential of an inmate. Work history must be used as a whole. The more recent a good history, the more successful an inmate's jail record. Work factors may aid in selecting narcotics-addicted inmates for work-release programs. (Author/BEF)

Describes the Rehabilitation Evaluation and Adjustment Facility, designed to create and offer effective strategies for vocational/psychological evaluation and personal adjustment of disabled individuals. (Author/RK)

Outlined are procedures for implementing a community based orientation and mobility program for blind persons within a vocational rehabilitation agency. (Author)

This study compared psychiatric rehabilitees' causal attributions for a vocational outcome with those of a college sample. Causality included personal force factors (ability on the job and effort on the job) and environmental factors (luck). It was found that psychiatric rehabilitees assigned causality in a similar manner to college students.…

Review of the literature on drug abuse by people with mental retardation addresses prevalence, drug-related problems, special vulnerabilities of this population, treatment programs, and status of drug abuse prevention and drug education for this population. A lack of and need for controlled research dealing with the genesis, treatment, and…

Reviews research on the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program relevant to the treatment and prevention of criminal behavior and substance abuse. Incarcerated offenders show rapid positive changes in risk factors associated with criminal behavior, including anxiety, aggression, hostility, moral judgment, in-prison rule infractions, and substance…

Examines the employment outcomes of 100,375 rehabilitants. Emphasizes the relationships among (1) full-time workers and those completing a rehabilitation plan and job openings in the United States, (2) starting salaries of full-time workers in the U.S. compared to rehabilitants, and (3) rehabilitation placements in occupations with the largest…

Evaluates effectiveness of "Say It Straight" communication training with 36 mothers in residential chemical dependency treatment. Self-reported, disempowering behaviors showed highly significant decreases after SIS training, and empowering behaviors showed significant increases. Results indicate this training is an important addition to…

This paper describes the development of community-based rehabilitation services for persons with mental illness in Israel. It focuses on occupational, social, and residential community psychiatric rehabilitation services. The paper argues that service development has been slow and out of step with the philosophy and objectives of community…

Reviews literature on alternatives to hospitalization for mentally ill. Describes mutual-help organizations which, if successful, involve individually tailored, assertive, and long-term support. Presents one mutual-help organization which has been observed for five years as an example. (Author/ABL)

This study examined the vocational interests and work motivation of 152 trainees attending vocational rehabilitation centers for the mentally retarded in Israel. Consistent patterns of vocational knowledge, vocational interests, and motivational variables emerged. Vocational knowledge was associated with vocational interests rather than with level…

Two factors are discussed that should influence the planning and development of rehabilitation services for visually impaired people: social perceptions/expectations (media influence, leisure, health, quality of life, and equality of opportunity) and external environmental influences (demographic, economic, social, political, and physical).…

This article describes the Rehabilitation Teachers Division of Migdal Or, an Israeli rehabilitation agency. It discusses the division's history, structure, features, and adaptations from other programs to the needs and cultures of blind and visually impaired people in Israel. (Author/JDD)

A profile is presented of the gender, age, and diagnoses of individuals with visual impairments in Finland. Services provided, current legislative measures, rehabilitation courses, and orientation and mobility training are also described. (JDD)

This directory of supportive and rehabilitative programs for the deaf lists federal programs, state vocational-rehabiltation offices, regional and local programs, national professional organizations and centers, state contacts for the National Association of the Deaf, and professional committee members of the Conference of Educational…