Integrating fieldwork into employment counseling for methadone-treatment patients
✍ Scribed by Laura Blankertz; Michael Spinelli; Stephen Magura; Priti Bali; Elizabeth M. Madison; Graham L. Staines; Emily Horowitz; Honoria Guarino; Audrey Grandy; Chunki Fong; Augustin Gomez; Amy Dimun; Ellen Friedman
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 726 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-0787
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✦ Synopsis
An innovative employment counseling model, Customized Employment Supports, was developed for methadone‐treatment patients, a population with historically low employment rates. The effectiveness of a key component of the model, “vocational fieldwork,” the delivery of services in the community rather than only within the clinic, was assessed through a quasi‐experimental study of the first 55 patients receiving the model in 2 clinics. Employment outcomes after 6 months were compared between patients who received vocational fieldwork (n = 18) and those who did not (n = 37). Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that patients receiving vocational fieldwork had significantly better outcomes for competitive work, informal work, and any paid work.