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Evaluational and counselling interventions provided by a vocational rehabilitation unitLjubljana University Rehabilitation Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia The objective of this exploratory investigation was to evaluate the benefits of evaluation and counselling interventions provided by the Vocational Rehabilitation Unit of Ljubljana University Rehabilitation Institute. Relative benefits ratio/quotient (RBQ), i.e. the ratio between gains in economic independence, social integration and subjective satisfaction of the client, degree of case difficulty, and amount of programme provided by the Unit were obtained for 75 clients. No relationship existed between the benefits resulting from the Unit interventions, degree of difficulty of client problems (case difficulty), and the amount of programme. The findings supported the idea that intensive rehabilitation efforts did not have a linear and immediate influence on the results. The clients achieved greater economical and social than personal benefits, while their dissatisfaction with nonvocational consequences of the programme, especially those related to the narrowing social interactions was also obvious. The relative benefits ratio, developed for this investigation, proved to be a fairly simple and practical tool for the assessment of rehabilitation work. However, it requires further improvement by establishing reliability and validity of the assessment criteria, and defining relative importance of the case difficulty indicators.
Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 8, No. 4,
346-352 (1994) |
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