For Veterans managing PTSD symptoms, returning to vocational functioning is often challenging; identifying modifiable variables that can contribute to positive vocational adjustment is critical to improved vocational rehabilitation services. Workplace social support has proven to be important in vocational adjustment in both general population and vocational rehabilitation samples, but this are...

OBJECTIVE Personal recovery accounts suggest that a positive therapeutic relationship with an optimistic mental health professional may facilitate social inclusion. However, little empirical research has investigated the role of the therapeutic relationship in social outcomes or explored potential mechanisms of change within community psychosis care. This study investigated the direct predictiv...

Vocational assessment data were collected from 94 low-education adults with severe substance abuse problems not currently in treatment. Participants completed the My Vocational Situation (MVS), SelfDirected Search (SDS), and Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory (R-FVII). Lower scores than the normative sample were revealed on all MVS scales, with scores for men being significantly lower t...

The initial one-year education was extended gradually to present compulsory nine-year basic education. Children start schooling at the age of six with basic education (single structure of primary and lower secondary education). This is followed by two-, threeor fouryear middle (upper secondary) vocational, technical or general education. Then there are three universities for graduate and postgr...

It is important to investigate the effectiveness of vocational high schools since governance expenditure on them was large compared to general high schools. This paper evaluates the impact of vocational high school on labor market in Korea. As a measure of the efficacy of the vocational high school, I use the wage data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). Restricting the datase...