Model System:

TBI

Reference Type:

Journal

Accession No.:

J73788

Journal:


Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin (RCB)

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Abstract:

Study assessed the validity of the Taiwanese version of the Systems Approach to Placement: Self-Assessment for Students and Counselors (SAP-SASC), designed to identify critical areas of knowledge, skills, and competencies possessed by practicing vocational rehabilitation (VR) professionals. Rehabilitation counselor skills, knowledge, and training are significant predictors of quality of employment outcome. In the past decade, VR and placement-related work settings in Taiwan have gone through a tremendous amount of change to reflect changing policies, types of disabilities, and global factors. VR professionals’ competencies also need to be addressed to keep pace with this transformation. A total of 116 participants completed the instrument. The participants represent: (1) rehabilitation counseling master’s students from National Changhua University of Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, and National Taiwan Normal University; and (2) job coaches, VR case managers, and other VR professionals from the Council of Labor Affairs in Taichung, Changhua, Nantou, and Taipei counties. Multi-trait scaling analysis revealed eight components of VR professionals’ competence: client, health, education, family, social, employer, placement, and funding. The respondents expressed the highest level of competence in providing job seeking and social skills training, addressing job modification needs, performing job analysis, and referring clients of community-based support services. The finding demonstrate that the Taiwanese SAP-SASC is a reliable measure of rehabilitation professionals’ competence in Taiwan.

Author(s):


Dutta, Alo, Kundu, Madan M., Chan, Fong, Wang, Ming H., Huang, I-Chun, Fleming, Kayla, Bezyak, Jill

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