[rehab] rehab Digest, Vol 91, Issue 8

Wed Feb 19 02:38:54 UTC 2014

Hello Everyone:
A different subject, but, I would like to ask any persons working with
Voc clients to please email me back if you have any suggestions. I am
almost at my last course in graduate school. I am training to license
as a CMHC and become a therapist. Although I have to complete one
thousand hours of internship time to graduate, I have been offered the
possible opportunity to work with Voc Rehab clients under the license
of a fully licensed therapist when graduating. I will meet with the
director of Utah County, and perhaps the director of Salt Lake Voc
Rehab pretty soon.
My questions for you all who have and continue to work with Voc clients are:
When surving clients who are atemping to become employed, educated, or
gain a skill have you recommended any of them for therapy? If so, have
you had issues gaining appropriate counselors who know the varied
issues and complications they must face? If yes, what kinds of topics
and solution focused therapies have worked? If not, what kinds of
subjects, attitudes, issues would you like your referral therapists to
deal with? How can I be effective, knowledgable, encourageing, and
honest in a empowered manner with out sugar coting things, or being
too demanding??
I am asking these questions for two reasons. I am writing a paper on
supervision of new therapists. Included within my second paper is a
plan for eventual private practice. I will work with disability on all
levels. So, if I can begin taking Voc clients, what kinds of things
would you all like clinicians to cover and consontrate on when
offering actual therapy? The answer would help me so much to gain a
clearer picture or perspective. Not all the individuals you see are
ready for employment, or seem to have to deal with a lot of prior
things which keep them stuck. I have briefly worked in the Vocational
Rehab area,and have sat, although briefly, in your seat. So much
money, care and time are put in to clients, and they must be
pro-active and able to cope with life.
A second question:
Have any of you found, as I have, that congenatively disabled persons
sometimes have a different set of problems or issues then do those
disabled later in life. Have any of you found this to be true? And if
so, what issues or differences do you see? You know, poor self-worth;
letting others take care of your basic needs;believing that you are
not equal, deep down; listening to social messages and family
attitudes which are confusing and wrong. If you work with a client who
is newly disabled, relatively speaking, do you all find that after
they adjust to the disableing condition with all of its variables, is
their over-all perspective similar to that which they had before
becoming disabled. You know, value with self; attitude about their
life; attitudes about making it, despite or because of the disability.
I have one research course to complete, and I may examine the
variables between the two groups as far as clinical peer supported
research goes. Any suggestions for me about sourses, resourses, for
literature or research already completed on this subject?
I know, I am a very poor speller. Please excuse this. I am trying to
find a email program which can correct spelling. Someone recommended
Out Look. Its not blindness, its a cognitive thing. Yes, I know it
puts me in a weak light. I am working on this problem. I use spell
check with Word, and have a tooter help APA large graduate papers.
Never-the-less, it is embarrassing and not a accurate reflection on my
thinking, processing or understanding.
Thanks so much. If any of you would like to call me to discuss these
subjects, or just talk please do. My phone number is:
801 3735028. If I don't answer the phone leave me a message and tell
me what is a good time for you for me to return your calls. It is so
wonderful to be in a community of like-minded individuals. For me,
this is a time of being able to meet a goal which has been in my mind
and heart for many years. Having the opportunity to complete my
clinical education in my fifties has been such a blessing. Like you, I
want to be the very best I can, reaching out, and giving back.
Thanks much.
Renee Pavlus .

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