Vocational Rehabilitation
What do you mean by Vocational Rehabilitation?
Vocational Rehabilitation is a process that enables persons with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive, and emotional disabilities, impairments, or health disabilities to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining, or returning to employment or other useful occupations.
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) is a process that helps people with disabilities find and keep employment.
Vocational rehabilitation is concerned with helping someone with a health problem to stay at, return to, and remain in work.
What is Vocational Rehabilitation service?
What Vocational Rehabilitation services may provide/include ?
(What does a vocational rehabilitation professional do for injured workers? )
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) is a service that helps people with health problems stay at, return to, and remain at work.
VR can include:
- Vocational exploration ( Assessment , appraisal , program evaluation, and research)
- Goal Setting and Intervention planning
- Guidance in choosing employment (providing health advice and promotion )
- Individual Career counseling
- Physical or mental restoration services
- Assistive devices
- Vocational training
- Service coordination, like Transportation costs
- Job-related tools and licenses
- Job-seeking skills development
- Assistance finding a job
What are the benefits of Vocational Rehabilitation ?
- Improves the health of people returning to work after unemployment.
- Preventing chronicity
- Improving work and activity tolerance
- No benefits of vocational rehabilitation
- Avoiding illness behavior
- Helping people feel confident about their work abilities and general well being
- Easing deconditioning
- Reduce occupational and psychological handicaps
- Provide opportunities to prepare for and enter suitable occupations
- Reducing pain and the effects of illness or disability
- It makes people healthier.
- Helps people with a health condition get better.
Whether the employer has a duty to provide vocational rehabilitation for disabled workers?
- Yes
Which emphasis is placed on Vocational Rehabilitation ?
- ILO recommendation -R099 - Vocational Rehabilitation (Disabled) Recommendation, 1955 (No. 99)
- United States -Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Title V
What is the scope of Vocational Rehabilitation?
Vocational rehabilitation services should be made available to all disabled persons, whatever the origin and nature of their disability and whatever their age, provided they can be prepared for, and have reasonable prospects of securing and retaining, suitable employment.
What is the difference between occupational rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation?
- Occupational rehabilitation helps injured workers return to work at a level that matches their functional and cognitive abilities. Vocational rehabilitation helps people with disabilities compete in the labor market, practice a profession, and more.
- Occupational therapists help injury victims learn to do everyday tasks and to work with assistive devices. Vocational therapists are supposed to work to help an injured worker return to work.
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Disclaimer : This article is written for educational purposes. The information has been used from various internet sources for awareness purposes.
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