This study examined whether history of childhood sexual abuse in schizophrenia is linked with severity of vocational deficits. Work performance was measured using the Work Behavior Inventory and hours of work performed in a vocational rehabilitation program and then compared for 12 participants with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder reporting abuse and 18 with schizophrenia with no abus...

Vocational rehabilitation is the restoration to health and capability to work of individuals incapacitated by mental or physical disease, or by injury. It is high on the national agenda. Securing Health Together [1], the Health & Safety Executive's (HSE) long-term occupational health strategy for England, Scotland and Wales, has made availability for rehabilitation for all who require it as one...

In this study, four variables were found to have a significant association with competitive employment outcomes for blind and visually impaired consumers of vocational rehabilitation services. These variables were the receipt of education as a rehabilitation service that resulted in an educational certificate or degree, having worked since the onset of the disability, reason for applying to voc...

On January 22, 2001, the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the US Department of Education amended the regulations governing the State Vocational Rehabilitation Program to redefine the term employment outcome to mean an individual with a disability working in an integrated setting [2]. Historically within State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), extended employment (sometimes referred to as...

Andersén, Å. 2017. Self-efficacy, Vocational Rehabilitation and Transition to Work. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1366. 86 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0059-7. The overall aim of this thesis was to examine the relationship between self-efficacy, individually tailored vocational rehabilitation and transition ...

Unemployment among persons with disabilities is a serious and prevalent problem. The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that, as of May 2014, the employment rate for people without disabilities was 71.4 percent, but only 25.3 percent for persons with any disability [1], an employment gap of 46.1 percent. According to a comprehensive review of the literature between 1978 a...

BACKGROUND Vocational reintegration is an important goal in the rehabilitation process. The amputees had to take time to adjust themselves to their new condition after lower limb amputation and that might have an impact on their vocation. As yet, there has been no information regarding vocational reintegration among the lower limb amputees in Thailand. OBJECTIVES To study the rate of vocation...

OBJECTIVE The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) serves as a unifying model for rehabilitation medicine. Variables of the health status measurements, the Crohn's Disease Activity Index and the Harvey-Bradshaw Index, have not been linked with the ICF categories and compared with other predictors of rehabilitation outcomes. METHODS Crohn's Disease Activity ...

Vocational rehabilitation represents an important element within the mental health care system. To ensure the success of rehabilitation, programs of varying degrees of complexity are needed in order to meet patients abilities and needs. Rehabilitation success must be examined multidimensionally and not be reduced to the mere integration into competitive employment. Success is also represented b...