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...

this research discusses the process of designing a conceptual model for a new information system, i.e. electronic document management system. the new system is designed for an educational institute (itvhe) whose managers are the research population. the research methodology is based on structured analysis and design methodology (ssadm). in the end, the new system proposed using a data flow diag...

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...

. eir understanding of their own aptitudes, par'cular interests, and also their limitations. In other ?rds, they should gain some degree of self-awareess about themselves and work. Professor Alec Roger, who was formerly Head J the Vocational Guidance Department of the ^ational Institute of Industrial Psychology, posed e following four questions about this problem: Should we leave young people a...