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Abstracts from the Journal of Rehabilitation Vol. 66, No. 1 Jan/Feb/March 2000 Using the Internet to Facilitate the Rehabilitation Process Jeanne Boland Patterson University of North Florida ABSTRACT: The Internet, which provides numerous resources for rehabilitation professionals and consumers, is having a significant impact on the rehabilitation process. It provides immediate access to medical and vocational information, as well as career development tools that can be used by consumers. Collectively, these promote the delivery of rehabilitation services, facilitate consumer-professional communication, and enhance the attainment of rehabilitation goals. This article describes how the Internet can be incorporated in each stage of the rehabilitation process (e.g., assessment, vocational exploration, job placement) and provides recommendations related to ethical issues and Internet use that need to be addressed by rehabilitation professionals. Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at a Distance: Challenges, Strategies and Ethics to Consider Marti Riemer-Reiss, Ph.D. Montana State University-Billings ABSTRACT: Distance counseling (telecounseling) is a method of service delivery with potential to supplement traditional vocational rehabilitation services. Telecounseling is discussed in relation to distance education and telemedicine. The challenges of using this mode of communication in vocational rehabilitation settings involve potential technological difficulties, discomfort with technology, relationship development, inequitable access, and ethical issues. Advantages of distance rehabilitation counseling include increased resources, cost-effectiveness, convenience, and efficiency. Although telecounseling will not replace the conventional mode of service delivery, it could become an essential component to improve the caliber of vocational rehabilitation counseling. Differing Priorities of Counselors and Customers to a Consumer Choice Model in Rehabilitation Michael Wolf-Branigin Michael Daeschlein Wayne State University Barbara Cardinal United Cerebral Palsy of Metropolitan Detroit Mary Twiss Michigan Department of Career Development-Rehabilitation Services ABSTRACT: This consumer choice project demonstrated a model for achieving employment outcomes based upon the customer's informed choice and control of funding. Responses concerning service options of 36 customers and 22 counselors who participated in a vocational rehabilitation consumer choice project were obtained. Results demonstrated that consumers rated project activities which were most time intensive and customer focused as paramount to their rehabilitation. Counselors rated activities that had been identified as the least time consuming most vital. This discrepancy has significant implications for rehabilitation counselors and related professionals as consumer choice components increasingly become used in their practices. Stress and Grief Reactions Among Rehabilitation Professionals: Dealing Effectively with Empathy Fatigue Mark A. Stebnicki East Carolina University ABSTRACT: Many rehabilitation professionals are exposed to service-related activities in which they must be empathically available to individuals and family members who are survivors of traumatic and chronic life-threatening disabilities. As a result, there appears to be a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion that occurs as the counselors' own wounds are continually revisited by their client's life stories and experience of chronic illness and disability. This article provides a framework for rehabilitation counselors to recognize the experience of empathy fatigue which is the emotional secondary stress and grief reactions that occur during helping interactions. A risk- factor assessment is offered and suggestions are given on how to cope effectively with empathy fatigue through the use of a holistic model. Explanatory Style as a Predictor of College Performance In Students with Physical Disabilities Ramiro Martinez Texas A&M International University Kenneth W. Sewell University of North Texas ABSTRACT: Thirty-eight persons with physical disabilities (PWPD) and 32 persons not physically disabled (PNPD) completed the Academic Goals Questionnaire, Academic Attributional Style Questionnaire (AASQ), and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The reformulated learned helplessness model (Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978) states that individuals making internal-stable-global attributions are prone to depression-like deficits when faced with a bad event. Multiple regressions for the PWPD group showed that explanatory style had inverse relations with GPA and goal efficacy, and a positive relation with goal specificity. Finally, exploratory analyses showed that those with a more optimistic explanatory style obtained higher GPAs and that there was no statistically significant difference between the explanatory style scores of PWPD and PNPD groups. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Tracy S. Swenson University of Wisconsin-Madison ABSTRACT: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), an evolving diagnostic entity of our times, has emerged with increasing frequency over the past few years affecting those we serve in our client populations. This syndrome is characterized by debilitating fatigue often following an episode of flu-like symptomology that doesn't resolve. The following article reviews CFS research literature covering the history, prevalence, definition, proposed theories of etiology, diagnostic criteria, psychiatric diagnostic overlap, and a brief review of proposed treatments. A discussion on functional limitations and possible accommodations for the individual diagnosed with CFS is included to assist in understanding the effect this complex diagnostic entity called CFS has on an individual. Order this issue! Issue Abstracts 2005 Vol. 71, No. 1 2004 Vol. 70, No. 1 Vol. 70, No. 2 Vol. 70, No. 3 Vol. 70, No. 4 2003 Vol. 69, No. 1 Vol. 69, No. 2 Vol. 69, No. 3 Vol. 69, No. 4 2002 Vol. 68, No. 1 Vol. 68, No. 2 Vol. 68, No. 3 Vol. 68, No. 4 2001 Vol. 67, No. 1 Vol. 67, No. 2 Vol. 67, No. 3 Vol. 67, No. 4 2000 Vol. 66, No. 1 Vol. 66, No. 2 Vol. 66, No. 3 Vol. 66, No. 4 |
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