BACKGROUND Early withdrawal or exclusion from the labor market leads to significant personal and societal costs. In Norway, the increasing numbers of young adults receiving disability pension is a growing problem. While a large body of research demonstrates positive effects of Supported Employment (SE) in patients with severe mental illness, no studies have yet investigated the effectiveness of...

BACKGROUND The Comprehensive ICF Core Set for vocational rehabilitation (VR) is a list of essential categories on functioning based on the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), which describes a standard for interdisciplinary assessment, documentation, and communication in VR. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine th...

Rehabilitation of the amputee falls into four categories of concentration: postoperative care, fitting of the prosthesis, functional training and voca­ tional re-training. Postoperative care is intended to assuage any psychic trauma, to prevent surgical complications, and to prepare the stump for prosthetic fit. It assists the amputee in attaining some independency before the fitting of the art...

Rehabilitation robots are increasingly being viewed as an appropriate assistive technology interface for persons with disabilities. The Desktop Vocational Assistant Robot (DeVAR) system is a voice-controlled robotic workstation designed to enable persons with severe mobility impairments to function independently in a work environment. This study examined the overall efficacy of the DeVAR system...

BACKGROUND This experiment evaluated the effectiveness of 2 approaches to vocational services for persons with severe mental disorders: (1) individual placement and support (IPS), in which employment specialists within the mental health center help patients to obtain competitive jobs and provide ongoing support, and (2) enhanced vocational rehabilitation (EVR), in which stepwise vocational serv...

OBJECTIVE People with disabilities find it harder to enter the labour market than people without disabilities and those with a mental illness are, in relation to people with other disabilities, employed at an essentially lower extent. Many are effectively helped by the vocational rehabilitation model Individual Placement and Support (IPS), but there are still many individuals left in undesired ...

About the Authors Robert P. Marinelli, Ed.D. Mr. Power is * doctoral candidate in the department of rehabilitation counseling at Boston University. Currently he is extensively involved in exploring more effective methods for rehabilitating the long-term, chronically ill patient. Prior to his returning to his graduate studies he was employed for two and one-half years as a rehabilitation counsel...

During the war the shortage of manpower directed the attention of allied medicine to what has come to be recognized as the third phase of medical care, the phase that takes the patient from the bed or the Out-patients Department to the job. This includes physical and medical rehabilitation, social adjustment, vocational guidance and re-training where indicated. These Service developments are ap...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this pilot study is 1) to develop an annotation schema and a training set of annotated notes to support the future development of a natural language processing (NLP) system to automatically extract employment information, and 2) to determine if information about employment status, goals and work-related challenges reported by service members and Veterans with mild traum...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate race differences in demographics, injury severity, and vocational outcomes for persons with TBI. PARTICIPANTS Seventy-five individuals with TBI (13 African American, 62 Caucasian) who requested services from the Missouri Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) over a 2-year period. MEASURES Demographics (i.e. age, race, level of education), injury severity (i.e. LOC...