This article examines the benefits of applying conventional counseling practices to facilitate clients' informed decision making during vocational rehabilitation. It also presents examples of how certain techniques associated with counseling theories help to empower consumers.
"Chapters included in this edition present contemporary and seminal literature on the foundations of the rehabilitation counseling practice, including an overview of private sector practice; information on the disability experience, with particular attention to family relations, and disability rights; and a detailed account of perennial and emerging professional roles and competencies. Special attention is given to key aspects of practice, including advocacy and social justice, psychiatric rehabilitation, counseling and mental health issues, assessment, vocational and career development, case management, ethics, and the use of technology (e.g., telemedicine) within service delivery"--
The study aims to expose the vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs of students at Al-Balqa' Applied University (BAU), and the study tool was implemented; after confirming the sincerity and stability of it, which consists of (60) articles, that represents the vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs for its sample of (291) BAU students for the second semester of the academic year (2016-2017). The study results showed that level of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs of students at BAU is medium, where (28) articles of needs came at high level, while (32) came at medium level. It showed the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the sex variable of female, and the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the study phase variable of diploma compared with the bachelor degree, and it also showed the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the major variable of humanity and occupational compared with the science major.
Despite the increasing availability of online counseling services, many questions remain unanswered. This study compared the effectiveness of a specific employment counseling activity, vocational interest inventory interpretation, across 3 delivery modalities: (a) online text chat; (b) online text chat with video cues; and (c) traditional, face‐to‐face interpretation. The difference in ratings of session value between text chat with video and face‐to‐face modalities was not significant; both were rated significantly higher than text chat alone. The results provide tentative support for online delivery of vocational test interpretation if video cues are available but suggest caution with use of text chat alone.
AbstractFive forms of job entry and retention dealing with sponsoring authority are discussed. Based on personality types, they are compared to Heath's psychological model. Implications for vocational planning of clients are considered.
