Defining Employment Specialist Competencies: Results of a Participatory Research Study.
Community Ment Health J
; 56(3): 440-447, 2020 04.
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ABSTRACT
The preponderance of research conducted on supported employment has focused on the structure of interventions with little empirical investigation into the contribution of employment specialists to work outcomes. Using a participatory approach, we identified competencies essential to the role of the employment specialists, operationalized and refined those competencies using the perspectives of experts, service recipients, and employment specialists themselves. We conducted an online survey with 34 candidate items and n = 142 respondents. Results suggested good psychometric properties, stability and coherence of the Vocational Practices and Relationship Scale. A total of n = 23 final items tapping the working alliance coalesced into a strong factor, as did strategies for promoting vocational recovery, suggesting that the scale warrants wide-scale testing for predictive validity. We consider these constructs and competencies to be a potential blueprint for training employment specialists, not only in technical skills and strategies, but also to increase the hope for vocational recovery among those they serve.
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Assunto principal:
Especialização
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Readaptação ao Emprego
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Humans
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En
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Community Ment Health J
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article