Guide to Career Management and Programming for Adults with Disabilities

A Guide to Career Management and Programming for Adults with Disabilities: A 21st Century Perspective provides 14 chapters of timely, comprehensive, cost-effective, theoretical and practical assistance to rehabilitation professionals working in many settings, and students training to work with this population. In one volume, all the intervention steps in career management, including the initial career interview, career assessment emphasizing self-assessment, obtaining and evaluating career information, decision-making, development of career action plans, and resume development or job interviewing, are discussed in the context of 21st Century career themes and demands.

This book is valuable as a guide to these professionals, and to students a textbook in career-related courses. Using case examples, and reader activities, such as a portfolio and practice illustrations, the reader can gain a renewed understanding of:
•Those specialized skills needed to implement the varied steps of career planning pursued in the 21st Century for those with an intellectual or physical disability
•How to embrace more consumer –driven career strategies than those representing the somewhat limited, traditional view of professional directed career exploration
•The importance of group, career programs and a suggested format for implementation of these programs
•All the steps in the career management process and the influence of 21st century career dynamics on these steps
•How to become personally involved with the book’s principles and related information through selected portfolio entries and then to use this exercise as a learning tool for consumers with a disability embarking on the career planning process.