Psychosocial factors affecting the employment of former vocational rehabilitation clients.

Analyzed questionnaires completed by 211 former vocational rehabilitation (VR) clients (aged 15–61 yrs) 2 yrs after case closure for a clarification of the psychosocial factors that affect vocational adjustment. Questionnaires assessed employment status and problems, sources of income/financial status, health, and job satisfaction (for employed Ss only). WAIS Full Scale IQs were available for 195 Ss, and 120 Ss had completed the 16PF—Form E. Results show that the primary criteria of vocational adjustment (employment, job satisfaction, and persistence in looking for work) were associated with better self-appraised physical and mental health, greater perceived family support in seeking employment, more optimism about employment prospects, and attribution of the problem source to the environment. These variables suggest useful points for intervention by VR practitioners. (5 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Training psychologists to work with minority clients: A prototypic model with Black clients.

Presents evidence that indicates the failure of current training programs to train clinicians to meet the psychotherapeutic needs of minority clients. Major problems with current training models are their deficiency in providing professionals with sufficient skills to retain minority clients in therapy and their violation of psychologists' ethical standards as established by the American Psychological Association. A course designed to explore issues relevant to the understanding and assessment of minority clients' psychological problems and to provide insights into effective therapeutic intervention for these problems is described. (37 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Age differences in a sample of state vocational rehabilitation clients with traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To examine the relations among age, neuropsychological functioning, and vocational rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Study Design and Participants: Prospective study of 78 adults (18-57 years) who qualified for services with the Missouri Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR), based on a history of TBI followed from enrollment to case closure. Group differences based on age were examined for neuropsychological and vocational outcome with multivariate analysis of variance and nonparametric methods. Main Outcome Measures: Neuropsychological test data and DVR data regarding vocational placement. Results: Age-related differences were present for a measure of mental flexibility, isolated demographic characteristics, and 1 DVR service category. Contrary to hypotheses, there were no age-related differences in vocational outcome. Conclusions: In contrast to hospital-based samples, age does not appear to be a negative indicator for individuals admitted to a state DVR program. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Quality of counselors' intake evaluations for clients with problems that are primarily vocational versus personal.

Compared the quality of 15 doctoral-level counselors' written evaluations following an initial interview with 113 17–36 yr old college students whose problems were judged to be primarily vocational, personal, or a mixture of the two. Overall, quality of intake evaluations was lower for vocational than for personal problems. Counselors' interest in doing intakes, studying the results of interest inventories, and doing vocational personal counseling related to the quality of their intake evaluations in various ways. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A comparison of measures of expressed and inventoried vocational interests among counseling center clients.

Compared the responses of 50 female and 50 male counseling center clients (18–36 yrs old) to the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) and the Vocational Card Sort (VCS). The 2 sets of Holland themes, using 3-point codes, were moderately related. Although the 5 highest basic interests of the 2 measures were rather strongly related, the relationships between the 5 highest occupational scales were less clearly related. It was also found that for females, the 5 highest VCS occupations were less sexually stereotyped than the comparable SCII scales. No differences were found for males. (16 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Outpatient psychotherapy with dangerous clients: A model for clinical decision making.

The precedent-setting 1976 judicial decision of Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California established a duty to protect whereby psychotherapists are expected to exercise reasonable care to protect the potential victims of their clients' violent behavior. However, no standard of care for dangerous clients has been established. In this article, the authors present a model for clinical decision making to determine the best interventions for dealing with dangerous outpatient clients. The model takes into account the degree of violence risk and the strength of the therapeutic alliance. Four cases are presented to illustrate the application of the model. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The relationships of self-efficacy for the Holland themes to gender, occupational group membership, and vocational interests.

The studies presented in this article resulted in the findings that gender differences in self-efficacy for the Holland themes are consistent with previous findings regarding gender differences in Holland interest patterns, although the gender differences are less pronounced in employed adults than in college students. Within occupational group, the self-efficacy profiles of women and men were very similar and closely corresponded to the Holland interest code of the occupation. Confidence for and interest in a theme were moderately correlated, and recommendations for the counseling use of joint combinations of interests and self-efficacy are made. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sequencing of intrapsychic stages of vocational development.

Constructed a scale to test the formulation that in vocational development, self-differentiation precedes competence, which precedes independence, which in turn precedes commitment. If this were true, ratings on prior stages should be higher than on each succeeding one. Staff ratings on scale items related to each stage were made on 222 clients in a deaf rehabilitation project, who were divided into high- and low-functioning (socially and vocationally) workshop and counseling groups. For all 4 subgroups, average self-differentiation ratings exceeded competence, which exceeded independence. In only 1 group did commitment follow in predicted sequence, which may reflect experimental conditions or the nature of the concept. Support for the posited sequence of purely intrapsychic stages of vocational development was found. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Conducting psychoeducational interventions with drug abusing clients: the lifestyle model

A psychoeducational model of intervention is proposed for use with drug abusing clients. This model may be particularly helpful during the early stages of intervention in reducing resistance to change because it addresses the eight thinking styles (mollification, cutoff, entitlement, power orientation, sentimentality, superoptimism, cognitive indolence, discontinuity) believed to shield the drug "lifestyle" from forces that would otherwise bring about change. Practical suggestions are offered as to how this information might be shared with clients.     

Development of a bilingual interpreter program: An alternative model for Spanish-speaking services.

Traces the development and growth of an innovative program designed to help English-speaking therapists evaluate and treat Spanish-speaking patients. Difficulties and successes encountered in implementing a bilingual interpreter program are described. Specific issues examined include the roles of language proficiency, language recall, and language distortion; the role of psychological education; and transference problems in a triadic interaction. It is argued that the training and use of bilingual interpreters is an effective and feasible alternative model for providing Spanish-speaking services. (12 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The impact of the Occupational Choice Strategy on the career development of rehabilitation clients.

Examination of the impact of an occupational choice strategy (OCS) on the career development of clients in a comprehensive rehabilitation center indicates that the 20 participants (aged 17–53 yrs) in OCS scored consistently higher than did the 20 control Ss on career decidedness, vocational identity, vocational self-awareness, vocational knowledge, and readiness for vocational planning. OCS Ss were also more likely than controls to persist in their rehabilitation programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Journal of Counseling Psychology (January 1973): Errata.

Reports an error in the table of contents of the Journal of Counseling Psychology. The article "On Measuring the Vocational Interests of Women" (see record 1973-23974-001) by Nancy S. Cole (1973[Mar], 20[2], 105-112) that was listed on page 16 in the January table of contents appears in this issue of the Journal. Appearing on page 16 in the January issue, in fact, is "Instability of Therapeutic Conditions in Psychotherapy" (see record 1973-21485-001), by Alan S. Gurman (1973[Jan], 20(1), 16-24). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

西部大开发与职业技术教育的发展

西安建筑科技大学于 2 0世纪 80年代初开始举办高等职业技术教育 ,至今有近二十年的历史。近年来 ,在各级主管部门的关怀和支持下 ,学校的高等职业技术教育事业得到了长足发展 ,成为学校培养人才的重要组成部分 ,已形成多层次、多形式、多规格的教育结构体系。西安建筑科技大学职业技术学院作为直属二级学院有优越的办学条件 ,教学严谨 ,管理严格 ,师资力量雄厚 ,专业设置适应社会需求。目前 ,职教本科在校生近 2 70名 ,高职专科在校生近 75 0名 ,本科毕业生可授予学士学校 ,专科在校生中途经过选拔可升入本科专业学习。为贯彻党的教育方针 …     

Career and marriage orientation in the vocational development of college women.

The problem dealt with the construction of an attitude inventory and the comparison of selected factors in the vocational development of 3 groups of college girls grouped on the basis of their attitudes as measured by the inventory. 180 college girls were administered the Career and Marriage Attitude Inventory; 30 were selected for study on the basis of scores earned. A structured interview-case study was used to prepare summaries which were ranked by 3 impartial judges. Significance at the 1% level was determined by Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance and the application of the F test. Comparison among groups revealed that girls differ in respect to career-marriage attitudes and occupational interests. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reinterpreting Seaver's (1973) study of teacher expectancies as a regression artifact.

Asserts that the results of W. B. Seaver's (see record 1974-07975-001) study of the effects of teacher expectancies are largely due to a regression artifact, in that the performance of an older sibling (which was subsequently compared to that of younger siblings) probably depended in part on teacher effectiveness. Why this interpretation was overlooked by Seaver and the plausibility of other hypotheses are discussed. (11 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Impact of a counseling outreach workshop on vocational development.

Studied the effects of a structured life-planning workshop geared to outreach or preventative vocational counseling on the career decisions of 64 male undergraduates. Behavioral and attitudinal measures derived from a career process model of career development were examined. Significant differences between experimental and control groups were found on behavioral measures of pre-post changes in information seeking, the total number of occupations Ss were considering, and the congruence of these alternatives with their measured interests. No changes were found in attitudes about choosing a career or perceptions of strengths and weaknesses. (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)