A job club at a state hospital

✍ Scribed by Patricia Brey; Jerry J. Zadny; Mary Jane Gonzalez-Huss; Patrick A. Ament

• Book ID: 101712179
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 345 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-0847
• DOI: 10.1002/bin.2360040103

✦ Synopsis

A job club conducted at a state hospital placed 78% of job seekers in competitive employment. Referrals included inpatient, halfway house, and outpatient clients. The results indicate that while client demographics and treatment histories are associated with different success rates, a majority of all client groups found work.

The job finding club developed by Azrin and his colleagues (Azrin, Flores, & Kaplan, 1975) and later variations on the model have been shown to be an effective way of helping a wide variety of job seekers obtained competitive employment. Populations have included state employment service referrals and respondents to a newspaper advertisement (Azrin et al., 1975), welfare recipients (Azrin, Philip, Borck, & Besalel-Azrin, 1978), mentally retarded persons (Zawlocki & Wesolowski, 1983), vocational rehabilitation clients (Wesolowski, Zawlocki, & Dowdy, 1986), clients of *