Sandra Fitzgerald, M. Leahy, H. Kang, Fong Chan, J. Bezyak
{"title":"Perceived Preparedness to Implement Evidence-Based Practice by Certified Rehabilitation Counselors: A Qualitative Content Analysis","authors":"Sandra Fitzgerald, M. Leahy, H. Kang, Fong Chan, J. Bezyak","doi":"10.1177/0034355216659233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0034355216659233","url":null,"abstract":"The implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in rehabilitation counseling has the potential to improve the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services and employment outcomes of people with disabilities. The purpose of this content analysis was to explore certified rehabilitation counselors’ (CRCs) perceptions of the effectiveness of EBP and their preparedness to implement EBP in a variety of rehabilitation counseling settings. Three hundred fourteen CRCs responded to two open-ended questions related to their perceived effectiveness and preparedness to use EBP in VR service delivery practices. Results of this content analysis indicate that CRCs generally recognize the value of EBP and support its use in rehabilitation counseling. However, they identified major individual-level and organizational-level barriers that could hinder the implementation of EBP in the professional practice of rehabilitation counseling. Strong administrative support, adequate funding, time, and continuous training to update skills will be needed to fully implement EBP in rehabilitation counseling.","PeriodicalId":47012,"journal":{"name":"Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0034355216659233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49020128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Vocational Rehabilitation Transition Specialists Influence Curricula for Students With Severe Disabilities","authors":"A. Plotner, S. Dymond","doi":"10.1177/0034355215626699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0034355215626699","url":null,"abstract":"According to decades of research on secondary transition for individuals with disabilities, cross-agency collaboration with adult service providers is an integral element of positive post-school outcomes. While much has been written about the general functions of vocational rehabilitation (VR) professionals and their part in the transition planning process, limited research has explored the role these professionals play in curriculum decisions, particularly for students with the most significant disabilities. Through the use of semi-structured, face-to-face interviews, the authors explain the work of six transition specialists in a midwestern state who are jointly funded by VR and the respective local education agencies with which they work. Specifically, their influence on the development and implementation of transition-related curricula for students with severe disabilities is addressed. Participating VR transition specialists reported that they influence curricula through a collaborative approach, and focus on resource and knowledge sharing. These professionals also reported delivering several direct-service activities to students inside and outside of the school environment.","PeriodicalId":47012,"journal":{"name":"Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0034355215626699","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49516083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Accommodation on Academic Performance of College Students With Disabilities","authors":"W. Kim, Juyoung Lee","doi":"10.1177/0034355215605259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0034355215605259","url":null,"abstract":"Accommodating students with disabilities may influence their academic performance. This study investigates the effects of accommodations on grade point average (GPA) by examining a sample of 1,248 students from the Office of Disability Services at the Pennsylvania State University. The results showed the significant influence that both test accommodation, specifically extension of time and modification of materials, and course accommodation, specifically assignment accommodation, had on overall GPA while controlling demographic variables and types of disability. The authors also discuss the significance, limitations, and implications of such results.","PeriodicalId":47012,"journal":{"name":"Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0034355215605259","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65483661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aisha E. Shamburger-Rousseau, L. Conyers, Amy J. Armstrong
{"title":"Rehabilitation Service Utilization Among African American Women Living With HIV/AIDS","authors":"Aisha E. Shamburger-Rousseau, L. Conyers, Amy J. Armstrong","doi":"10.1177/0034355215601354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0034355215601354","url":null,"abstract":"African American women are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. As individuals with HIV/AIDS are living longer and healthier lives, research exploring the appropriateness of rehabilitation services has increased. To date, no research has examined the specific use of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services among HIV-positive African American women. The purpose of this study was to apply the behavioral model for vulnerable populations (BMVP) to examine key predisposing, enabling, and need variables related to and predictive of the utilization of VR services among African American women with HIV/AIDS. Survey research methods were used to collect data from a sample of 313 African American women living with HIV/AIDS, recruited from AIDS Service Organizations and national HIV/AIDS networks across the United States, who volunteered to complete the National Working Positive Coalition–Vocational Development and Employment Needs Survey. Hierarchical logistic regression statistical analyses were conducted to identify key factors predictive of use of VR services. Receipt of income benefits and knowledge of VR services were found to be predictive of the utilization of VR services among African American women living with HIV/AIDS.","PeriodicalId":47012,"journal":{"name":"Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0034355215601354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65483830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Min Kim, S. Leierer, W. Leigh Atherton, Paul J. Toriello, Steven R. Sligar
{"title":"The Mediating Influence of Treatment Participation Rate on Post-Treatment Employment","authors":"Min Kim, S. Leierer, W. Leigh Atherton, Paul J. Toriello, Steven R. Sligar","doi":"10.1177/0034355215610068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0034355215610068","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored treatment participation rate as a mediator between individuals’ baseline alcohol use, drug use, and psychiatric issue levels and post-treatment employment status. The study sample included 106 unemployed or underemployed individuals with substance use disorders who were participants in an intensive drug abuse treatment program. Structural equation modeling was applied to examine relationships between study variables. The results showed that (a) the direct effect of individuals’ baseline alcohol use, drug use, and psychiatric issue severities reduced treatment participation rate; (b) the direct effect of treatment participation rate ameliorated post-treatment employment status; and (c) the indirect effect of individuals’ baseline alcohol use, drug use, and psychiatric issue severities on post-treatment employment status was mediated by treatment participation rate, which reduced the negative influence of baseline issue severity on employment. This significant mediating effect has both practical and theoretical importance in that it indicates the need for increased focus on treatment participation in practice and future research.","PeriodicalId":47012,"journal":{"name":"Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0034355215610068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65483667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Phillips, Jon Deiches, Blaise Morrison, Ashley Kaseroff
{"title":"Social Effectiveness","authors":"B. Phillips, Jon Deiches, Blaise Morrison, Ashley Kaseroff","doi":"10.1177/0034355215601073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0034355215601073","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to effectively manage social interactions is key to achieving many life goals. A substantial amount of research has been conducted in rehabilitation counseling and rehabilitation psychology that includes a consideration of some aspect of social effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to collect and synthesize the past 30 years of rehabilitation counseling and rehabilitation psychology research addressing aspects of social effectiveness. A total of 13 terms (e.g., interpersonal skills, social competence, social functioning, and soft skills) were used to search six of the most prominent rehabilitation counseling and rehabilitation psychology journals from the period January 1982 to May 2013. A total of 608 articles were identified as including at least one of the search terms, with 175 using a search term prominently and the other 433 only passively. Social skills, social functioning, and social competence were among the most frequently used search terms, accounting for almost 90% of all used terms. It was found that social effectiveness constructs were rarely defined and often used interchangeably. Twenty-nine interventions studies had been published in the 30-year period. Results reflect a substantial and useful body of literature in this area of research while also conveying an opportunity for the development of a more systematic, unified, and theory-driven approach to understanding and addressing aspects of social effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":47012,"journal":{"name":"Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0034355215601073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65483694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph S. Pfaller, Wei-Mo Tu, Blaise Morrison, Fong Chan, Laura A. Owens, C. Anderson, Sandra Fitzgerald, Jessica M. Brooks, F. E. Menz
{"title":"Social-Cognitive Predictors of Readiness to Use Evidence-Based Practice","authors":"Joseph S. Pfaller, Wei-Mo Tu, Blaise Morrison, Fong Chan, Laura A. Owens, C. Anderson, Sandra Fitzgerald, Jessica M. Brooks, F. E. Menz","doi":"10.1177/0034355215591779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0034355215591779","url":null,"abstract":"Community-based rehabilitation organizations (CBRO) play an important role in providing rehabilitation and support services to individuals with disabilities. Increased utilization of CBROs by state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies requires a better understanding of how evidence-based practices (EBPs) are used in CBROs. The aim of the study was to examine the readiness of CBRO practitioners to implement EBP, based on social-cognitive predictors of confidence in knowledge and use of EBP, expected benefits of EBP, and perceived barriers and supports to use EBP. A total of 187 CBRO practitioners were surveyed using the Evidence-Based Practice CBRO (EBP-CBRO) survey. Participants were in moderate agreement that they were ready to implement EBP. They were moderately confident in their knowledge about EBP, in high agreement about the expected improvements by using EBP, and perceived low barriers and moderate supports to implementing EBP. The social-cognitive predictors accounted for 55% of the variance in readiness to implement EBP, with knowledge about EBP as the most significant predictor of readiness to use EBP. Social-cognitive theory is a useful framework for exploring CBRO practitioners’ attitudes toward and knowledge of EBP. CBRO practitioners are in moderate agreement about readiness to use EBP. Improving practitioner confidence to use EBP might be the best means of increasing utilization.","PeriodicalId":47012,"journal":{"name":"Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0034355215591779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65483503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}