Vocational Rehabilitation (Glossary)
Employer
Element:
Vocational Rehabilitation
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This element is commonly available in 5 countries and easily accessible in 6 others. It is considered to be very effective in Austria and effective in 6 other countries.
Vocational Rehabilitation
Evidence suggests that vocational rehabilitation is one of the most beneficial and effective programmes available in integrating people with disabilities into mainstream employment. In addition, the social relationships that develop with staff during the course of vocational rehabilitation programmes are of great importance. Positive outcomes include feeling better about one self and having new skills. Further evidence suggests that vocational rehabilitation improves a person’s perceived workability and indeed the importance of a person’s disability decreases with a rising level of vocational training. In terms of the cost-effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation programmes, from the perspective of the individual, the taxpayer and the economy as a whole, research suggests that in the long-term, savings on welfare benefit payments, the payment of taxes on earnings by the worker, savings in the cost of attending other services, the provision of other supports in the community, and the economic contribution of the individual may create a positive economic benefit.
Related Articles
- Drake Robert E. et al; (2003) Recent Research on Vocational Rehabilitation for Persons with Severe Mental Illness. Current Opinion in Psychiatry Vol. 16(4) pp 451-455.
[link] - Boardman, J. et al; (2003) “Work and Employment for People with Psychiatric Disabilities” The British Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 182 pp 467-468
[link] - Gates, Lauren B. et al; (2004) “Performance Based Contracting: Turning Vocational Policy into Jobs” Administration & Policy in Mental Health & Mental Health Services Research Vol. 31 No.3
[link] - Beyer, S. et al; (2002) “An Interim Report on Effective Approaches to Vocational Training and Employment for People with Disabilities from the Labor Project” Funded By the European Commission
[pdf] - Eikelmann, B. & Recker, T. (1993) “A Second Labour Market? Vocational Rehabilitation & Work Integration of Chronically Mentally Ill People in Germany” Acta Psychiatricia Scandinavia Vol. 88 No. 2 pp 124-9
[link] - Tews, H.P. et al; (2003) “Vocational Rehabilitation in German Vocational Retraining Centres and Results of Berufsforderungswerk Heidelberg gGmbH” Rehabilitation Vol 42 No. 1 pp 36-44
[link] - Ursic, C. & Vidmar, J. (2004) “The Right to Equal Opportunity and Treatment: Employment of Persons with Disabilities in Slovenia” International Journal of Rehabilitative Research Vol. 27 No. 4 pp 317-20
[link] - Verekamp. I. et al; (2006) “How Can we Help Employees with Chronic Diseases to Stay at Work? A Review of Interventions Aimed at Job Retention and Based on an Empowerment Perspective” International Archives of Occupational & Environmental Health Vol. 80 no. 2 pp 87-97
[link] - Li, E.P. (2006) “Vocational Rehabilitation Program for Persons with Occupational Deafness” Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Vol. 16 Issue 4 pp 503-12
[link] - Johnstone, B. et al; (2006) “Vocational Outcomes of State Vocational Rehabilitation Clients with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Review of the Missouri Model Brain Injury System Studies Neurorehabilitation Vol. 21 Issue 4 pp 335-47
[link] - Braathen T.N. et al; (2007) “Improved Work Ability and Return to Work Following Vocational Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation of Subjects on Long-term Sick Leave” Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine Vol. 39 No. 6 pp 493-9
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