Career Rehabilitation: Integration of Vocational Rehabilitation and Career Development in the Twenty-First Century

✍ Scribed by Michael Shahnasarian

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 701 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0889-4019
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2001.tb00571.x

✦ Synopsis

The concept of career rehabilitation, a paradigm that proposes integrating perspectives from vocational rehabilitation and career development, is introduced. Counselors are encouraged to assess how vocational handicaps secondary to a disabling problem can affect a client over his or her “worklife” and to adopt a life‐span approach to career decision making of people with disabilities. Four common vocational handicaps are discussed: diminished access to work opportunities, need for workplace accommodations, employer bias in hiring and advancement, and diminished “worklife” expectancy. Counselors testifying in legal forums are encouraged to pursue scholarship on the career development of people with disabilities.