OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this study was to examine the relationship between vocational disability, psychiatric illness, life stressors and sociodemographic factors. METHOD Information on a variety of variables was obtained from insurance files of 147 subjects who had submitted claims for monetary compensation on grounds of psychiatric symptoms. RESULTS The majority of subjects rec...

BACKGROUND Self-sufficiency is the realisation of an acceptable level of functioning either by the person him/herself or through the adequate organisation of help from informal or formal care providers. Assessment of self-sufficiency for determining an individual's functional strengths and areas for improvement is increasingly being applied among adolescents in vocational education, a group con...

In this article, we applied the AHP method with quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis to analyze three sorts of basic educational mode combining production with learning and research, i.e. the automated instruction, the mode combining production and learning, and the integration combining production with learning and research, and obtained that the educational mode combining production...

Analysis of followup data in linked records of the Social Security Administration and the Rehabilitation Services Administration shows wide variation by State in 1972 employment and earnings of rehabilitants compared with those for other disabled persons whose cases were closed by State vocational rehabilitation agencies in fiscal year 1971. These State differences in the effect of rehahabilita...

The former site of the Training Institute for Skilled Persons in Nanman Army Arsenal is located on campus Dadong Vocational College Shenyang, and it fifth batch cultural relics protection units announced by Shenyang. Firstly, this paper gives a brief introduction to “old site” buildings, then summarizes existing diseases buildings means on-site investigation engineering surveying mapping. Adher...

This article presents research-based principles of vocational rehabilitation that have emerged from the study of diagnostically heterogeneous populations of persons with severe mental illness. Employment and vocational functioning outcomes of people with schizophrenia from recently published followup studies are described. In addition, we present research conducted over the past decade concerni...

The Paper is based on the evaluation of a sample of communities of practice formed with funding from Reframing the Future in 2002. The paper provides three good practice examples from the 2002 communities that were effective in identifying, reflecting upon and improving their practice, such as their ideas, tools and work styles. This reflection on practice was particularly apparent in the follo...

This paper presents a chronology of legislative mandates for vocational rehabilitation, discusses their impact on occupational therapy, and describes relationships between special educators and vocational agencies. The Career Training Workshop, a prevocational program developed and used successfully by a North Carolina school district, is described here as an example of one effort to prepare st...

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OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between general practitioner vocational training location and subsequent practice location, including the effect of rural origin. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Annual panel survey of GPs (from the MABEL study) who completed their vocational training and transitioned to independent practice, 2008-2014. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Rural practice location in the 5 yea...