In addition to the influences of family dynamics, educational and vocational factors on the social development and rehabilitation of CLP patients, psychological problems, such as lowered self-esteem and difficulties during social interaction, are also experienced by CLP individuals. As only 20 per cent of cleft teams world-wide carry out a psychological assessment for their patients, it is like...

Imagine a test that would allow you to predict the type of career for which a person is best suited For example, Mary comes to you for career counseling. She presents you with her education and work history, and an outline of her career objectives. Specifically, she says that she would like to find an entry-level position where she can help people, and is interested in a career in the social se...

This paper delineates factors influencing the development of policy for vocational education and training (VET), by identifying similarities and differences between policy in the United Kingdom and Australia. Although framed by the same model of economic orthodoxy, significant differences emerge in policy orientation and implementation which are sourced in political and ideological factors foun...

Education is fundamental for creating opportunities, empowering individuals and stimulating long-lasting change in communities. It is internationally recognised that education is the right of every child and must be equally accessible to girls and boys and be free and fair [1]. Access to education relates to all children attending and completing primary school, secondary school and tertiary or ...

This paper examines the problem of knowledge transfer from a sociocultural perspective. It is held that expectations of and understanding about transfer between different types of social practice (e.g. between the classroom and workplace) may be based on incomplete premises. It is proposed that vocational knowledge is sourced from different levels of social practice, each with its own character...

ledge and a personal account of Mr. Livie-Noble's own work, which is by no means typical and which cannot, and many psychologists will think should not, become a pattern for the future. Mr. Livie-Noble himself points out that the work of Psychologists in Public Schools (his own field) should not be compared too closely with that of the Psychologist to a Local Education Authority. He envisages a...

BACKGROUND Studies conducted in the USA have found the individual placement and support model of supported employment to be more effective than traditional vocational rehabilitation at helping people with severe mental illness to find and maintain competitive employment. AIMS To determine the effectiveness of the individual placement and support (supported employment) model in a Canadian sett...

OBJECTIVES Working is a common cause of chronic pain for workers. However, most of them need to continue working despite the pain in order to make a living unless they get a sick leave or retirement. We hypothesised that the therapeutic effect of vocational rehabilitation may depend on psychosocial factors related to the workplace. To test this hypothesis, we examined the association of work-re...

This article reviews 100 years of research on individual differences and their measurement, with a focus on research published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. We focus on 3 major individual differences domains: (a) knowledge, skill, and ability, including both the cognitive and physical domains; (b) personality, including integrity, emotional intelligence, stable motivational attributes (...

This paper reports on an empirical study concerning the use of LEGO Mindstorms Robotics kit as an instructional tool in technical and vocational secondary education. In particular, a robot car was developed and programmed in order to be utilized in teaching classes in the field of Mechanical Engineering. The paper describes the rationale for that construction and the robot car itself and propos...