Background: Many emerging disabilities that affect today's rehabilitation consumers are linked to lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, smoking, substance use, and obesity. Lifestyle-related disabilities have dramatically increased in incidence and prevalence over the past two decades. Rehabilitation counselors play an important role in…

Addresses issues relating to job placement function by vocational rehabilitation counselors. Role conflict, increased focus on servicing people with severe disabilities, societal pressures for cost-effective services, and increased emphasis on consumer choice are some of the issues. Vocational rehabilitation counselors must be knowledgeable about…

Centers on how to encourage counselor activity in the placement process not only to secure jobs for clients with severe disabilities but also to learn firsthand about the local world of work. Placement training must receive proper emphasis in rehabilitation education programs. (CT)

Prospective added secondary school involvement with job placement is of particular concern to those responsible for school policy, finance, curriculum, and administration. Forty considerations are identified which are beneficial in developing content areas of guidance programs. These could be included in career education programs as sub-topics.…

Discusses the role of college career planning and placement offices which must adapt to a changing employment climate while ensuring their legitimacy in a troubled academic setting. Internal and external functions are described, and the particular difficulties of placement offices as boundary-spanning units are discussed. (JAC)

Evaluation of the unsuccessfully closed cases of 57 deaf vocational rehabilitation clients found that the presence of a secondary disability, a low family income, few years of formal education, inexperienced counselors, and reduced funding for rehabilitation were predictors of unsuccessful closure. (DB)

The placement of foreign students in home countries is an important and complex matter. The Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus International Placement Advisory Council serves as an appropriate model for other schools to follow, for which placement personnel set up a program with the alumni offices. (Author)

Proposes the term "career navigation" to describe the thinking and strategy students need for effective career planning. Discusses several skills for success including self-evaluation and planning for the unexpected. The role of the counselor in helping students learn what is important to them and setting reasonable goals is discussed. (JAC)

Reviews an inservice training workshop for employment counselors on the skill of job development. Evaluations showed a need for additional inservice training on job development skills, including follow-up, marketing, using outside resources, matching employer needs with client capabilities, speaking before groups, effective verbal communication…

The third in a series reviewing research articles on the role of the employment service counselor. Discusses counselor activities, the ideal counselor role, real-ideal role discrepancies, and special problems. Suggests employment service counseling differs significantly from both job placement interviewing and traditional vocational counseling…

Balancing the functions of career planning (CP) and placement (PL) can be done. These issues differ from those of other career services directors. The College Placement Council meetings should cover issues such as winning faculty support for CP and evaluating CP and PL services. (Author/BEF)

This article examines the role of the vocational counselor in the job-seeking process for learning-disabled adults. It covers assessment of clients' interests and abilities and matching with job opportunities; teaching of job-seeking skills; use of volunteer jobs to assess clients' work habits; job-hunting procedures; and dealing with work…

Describes services that employment and school counselors can provide the handicapped. Gives information about federal legislation, the counselor's role, testing and training programs, and job development and placement. Includes a list of useful publications and a directory of state agencies to assist counselors of the handicapped. (MF)