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…

The "seven-year itch" to help clients scratch for jobs and specific means of assisting them are presented. (Author)

Employment of school counselors in local employment offices during summer vacations augments ability of Employment Services to aid youthful job seekers and equips school counselors with useful knowledges and skills. (Author)

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)

Placement officers must become specialists in the labor market. College placement officers must play a more active role in shaping the development of the nation's human resources and also in the development of their effective utilization. (Author)

The authors explore the roles that distributive education teachers and counselors may assume in the establishment and maintenance of a job placement service. (EA)

The role of the placement counselor is discussed in relation to psychological education. Placement counselors in the future will find their time divided between their job as counselor and their evolving role as educator. (Author/EK)

This dialogue focuses primarily on the meaning of the placement process and the functions of the placement specialist. There is sharp disagreement between the authors concerning placement in the rehabilitation process and the role of the rehabilitation counselor. Each author offers his viewpoint. (Author)

Counselor reports of the time and travel allocated to various activities were correlated with caseload statistics representing the rehabilitation outcomes of their clients. Increased effort devoted to placement and job development coincided with a decreased rate of cases closed as not rehabilitated. (Author)

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)