Providing Career Development Services to Veterans: Perceived Need, Acceptability, and Demand. (January 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Providing Career Development Services to Veterans: Perceived Need, Acceptability, and Demand. (January 2021)
- Main Title:
- Providing Career Development Services to Veterans: Perceived Need, Acceptability, and Demand
- Authors:
- Stevenson, Brian J.
Gorman, Jay A.
Crossman, Donna M.
Mueller, Lisa - Abstract:
- Providing career development services, through career counseling and assessment, is part of vocational rehabilitation programming. However, there is no applied evidence that such career development services are feasible or accepted among individuals with psychiatric disorders. We examined feasibility (acceptability, demand, and perceived need) of the Vocational Evaluation Center (VEC), one veterans affairs (VA) hospital's method of career development services for veterans with psychiatric disorders. Demographics, referral source, and service utilization were analyzed among 90 veterans referred to the VEC. Qualitative analysis identified patterns to veterans' reasons for seeking VEC services. Veterans referred to the VEC were predominately unemployed and disabled. Veterans tolerated the intervention well, with 16.7% dropping out. Reported needs for VEC services included (a) vocational uncertainty, (b) functional considerations in vocational planning, and (c) finding purpose. Veterans with psychiatric disorders want career development services. The VEC model appears feasible, well-tolerated, and aligned with consumers' needs.
- Is Part Of:
- Rehabilitation counseling bulletin. Volume 64:Number 2(2021:Jan.)
- Journal:
- Rehabilitation counseling bulletin
- Issue:
- Volume 64:Number 2(2021:Jan.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 64, Issue 2 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 64
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0064-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 97
- Page End:
- 107
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01
- Subjects:
- career development -- veterans -- vocational rehabilitation -- career counseling -- social cognitive career theory
Rehabilitation -- Periodicals
617.06 - Journal URLs:
- http://rcb.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.sagepublications.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0034355220914737 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0034-3552
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- Legaldeposit
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