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...

education is an investment to improve working ability and social activities of people. in the iranian educational system, training of human resources (men or women) is done via theoretical and technical - vocational fields of study in the high schools. in fact the students’ future education and employment is ascertained by choosing the desired field of study at the end of first year of high sch...

Gender differences should be considered in vocational high schools so women and men can develop their potentials without being inhibited by gender bias. Gender mainstreaming in vocational high schools is a strategy to integrate gender differences at all stages in teaching-learning process for achieving gender equality and equity. This research evaluates the implementation of gender mainstreamin...

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...

This study investigated the effect of performance-based versus competence-based assessment criteria on task performance and self-assessment skills among 39 novice secondary vocational education students in the domain of nursing and care. In a performance-based assessment group students are provided with a preset list of performance-based assessment criteria, describing what students should do, ...