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The Job Search Knowledge Scale: Assessing Consumers Of A Carf Exemplary-Rated Comprehensive Vocational Evaluation Program, Daniel L. Joutras

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Screening Chronic Pain Consumers For Potential Prescription Opiod Misuse By Medical Professionals, Jennifer A. Klein

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Screening For Alcohol And Drug Use Among Persons With Disabilities, Matthew E. Sprong

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People with disabilities experience many barriers when attempting to gain employment. Substance Use Disorders (SUDS) is one particular challenge that has been identified in this research paper. Individuals with SUDS experience an increase in unsucessful case closures in state funded vocational rehabilitation agencies. Screening for SUDS has been overlooked in many agencies and his paper intends to identify barriers of a screening protocal in state VR and provide recommendations for subcontracted-state comprehensive vocational evaluation programs to contribute to screening for SUDS.

The Importance Of Early Counseling And Education Of Persons Diagnosed With Alzheimer's Disease And Their Caregivers, Haley Pottorff Basnett

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When people are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, they go through periods of depression simply because the prognosis is eventual and certain death. By the same token, many healthcare professionals and insurance companies with whom individuals and their families must deal take an often cold approach to the diagnosis, considering counseling as a waste of time for a situation in which a physical prognosis is hopeless. In treating the physical aspect of the disease, many doctors do in fact prescribe an antidepressant, which ironically, will exacerbate the physical condition of the person affected, hastening the physical decline. Therefore, while the ultimate tragedy …

Job Burnout: The End Or A New Beginning?, Patricia J. Alsup Jr

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Human services work entails providing services to others.  Services are personalized to meet the needs and desires of the recipient.  Providers may encounter a range of emotions, not only their own but those of the service recipient and other interested parties. Combined with increased workloads, fewer resources, and outside pressures, employees can experience job stress or burnout.  This work explores the nature of human services work and burnout and provides recommendations for further examination to aid in retaining service providers, thereby preserving continuity and quality of services.

Gulf War Illness And Injuries, Dianna S. Inman

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE RESEARCH PAPER OF

DIANNA S. INMAN, for the Master of Science degree in REHABILITATION COUNSELOR, presented on May 2011, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

TITLE:  GULF WAR ILLNESS AND INJURIES

MAJOR PROFESSOR:  D. Shane Koch, Ph D., CRC

The Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq Enduring Freedom are wars

our United States troops have been involved in the Middle East.  The goal of

this research paper is to present and discuss the injuries and illness some of our

soldiers are experiencing in their tour of duty in the Middle East.  I will focus on three

conditions …

Employment And Disability: Debugging The Myth Of Employment And Loss Of Benefits., Matthew Fred

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In the United States those with disabilities have few options for support outside of family and friends.  For most persons with disabilities this support comes in the form of either Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) provided through the Social Security Administration (SSA).  Throughout the years qualifying for these benefits has become a labor intensive process.  During this process a person must demonstrate an inability to work under a definition that nearly requires a complete incapacity of the individual.  This difficulty in qualifying has resulted in a long held belief among recipients that if one returns …

The Living Situations Of Children In Foster Care: Which Is Better, Kinship Foster Care Or Non-Kinship Foster Care?, Conisha A. Hill

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Falling Through The Cracks: A Screening Assessment For Student Veterans With Learning Disabilities, Charles G. Hillesheim

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE RESEARCH PAPER OF

CHARLES G. HILLESHEIM, for the Masters of Science degree in REHABILITATION COUNSELING, presented on JULY 29, 2011, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

TITLE: FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS: A SCREENING ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENT VETERANS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Thomas Upton

This paper examines historical context of military intelligence assessment, post secondary challenges of student veterans, student veterans with a learning disability and campus support for veterans with learning disabilities and to facilitate an intervention by using a C-SIP style screener survey which can be a useful tool for a Rehabilitation Counselor. Facilitating …