Behavioral assessment of occupational skills of learning disabled adolescents.
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Biomedical subjects
P L Whang
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Training counseling skills: an experimental analysis and social validation.
A community development perspective suggests the value of using local resources to solve local problems. Two low-income staff of a community service center served as nonprofessional counselors after receiving a training program consisting of written instructions, practice, and performance feedback. The effects of the 40-hour training program were positive for both counseling and problem-solving skills. There was also evidence of generalization of counseling performance across clients, problems, and time. In addition, expert judges' ratings of performance were obtained as a measure of social validity. These findings suggest that the training procedures are effective in enhancing the counseling and problem-solving skills of low-income nonprofessionals.
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Involving consumers in decision-making.
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Creating and using social technologies for community empowerment.
Powerlessness appears to be associated consistently with widespread problems of living. Recently, enhancing community empowerment has been suggested as an important emphasis for human service professionals. This manuscript illustrates a role for human service professionals in creating and using social technologies to facilitate empowerment . Seven case studies are presented that represent seven frequently cited goals of empowerment efforts. Finally, the ethics of the empowerment strategy are analyzed and other implications of designing and using empowerment technologies are considered.
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