The McCarron-Dial System (MDS) was developed as an empirically based, multifactor assessment battery. Originally introduced to the field of rehabilitation as a vocational evaluation tool, its use has been expanded to include applications in virtually all areas of neurocognitive assessment and treatment (Chan, et al., 1993; Botterbusch, 1982). Expansion of the MDS was necessary to meet the conti...

OBJECTIVE The individual placement and support model of supported employment has been shown to be more effective than other vocational approaches in improving competitive work over 1-2 years in persons with severe mental illness. The authors evaluated the longer-term effects of the model compared with traditional vocational rehabilitation over 5 years. METHOD A randomized controlled trial com...

This article is the second in a series of articles that use data from the New Beneficiary Followup survey to analyze the work efforts of the Social Security Administration's Disability Insurance beneficiaries. Survival analysis techniques are used to determine the effect of vocational rehabilitation efforts and work incentive program provisions on actual work outcomes. The findings indicate tha...

PURPOSE Sick leave and unemployment are highly prevalent among people with affective disorders. Their depression severity is disabling and inversely related to having employment. No evidence-based vocational rehabilitation exists for this target group. Knowledge is therefore needed to understand the psychosocial factors that affect depression severity in order to develop new rehabilitation inte...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to this special issue on HIV and employment. Since the onset of the HIV pandemic in the early 1980s, the nature and course of this illness has changed in dramatic ways. As such, the response of the field of vocational rehabilitation has also grown to meet the ongoing needs of individuals with HIV/AIDS, especially as the need for employment and vocati...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders are the main reasons for rising proportions of premature pension in most high-income countries. Although inpatient medical rehabilitation has increasingly targeted work-related stress, there is still a lack of studies on the transfer of work-specific interventions into work contexts. Therefore, we plan to evaluate an online aftercare program aiming to improve vocatio...

Work is important both in maintaining mental health and in promoting the recovery of those who have experienced mental health problems. Enabling people to retain or gain employment has a profound effect on many areas of life and the costs of unemployment are high. Employment for individuals with mental illness gives opportunities for them to participate in society as active citizens, and barrie...

Cognitive deficits are a central and debilitating aspect of schizophrenia and other major mental illnesses. Although they are largely refractory to pharmacotherapy, multiple studies have now shown that large and lasting improvements in cognition can result from behavioral interventions. We will review our work over the past 10 years demonstrating that cognitive remediation treatment together wi...

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have impaired ability to use context, which may manifest as alterations of relatedness within the semantic network. However, impairment in context use may be more difficult to detect in high-functioning adults with ASD. To test context use in this population, we examined the influence of context on memory by using the "false memory" test. In the f...