Community service coordination for minority clients with disabilities: 10-step guidelines.

Although many resources are available to rehabilitation counselors to utilizing community resources for minority clients with disabilities, guidelines specific to service allocation are not easily available. The purpose of this article is to provide rehabilitation counselors with a simple, modifiable service allocation template for this purpose. A 10-step referral making process with real-world examples is presented. Special attention is given to ways in which counselors can appropriately allocate and monitor services when working with minority clients, followed by a case study demonstrating how the model may be applied.

Strengths based rehabilitation assessment: Adapted Inventory of Virtues and Strengths.

BACKGROUND: The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) operationalizes 24 character strengths that compose the six virtues proposed in Peterson and Seligman's classification theory. Though the utility of the VIA-IS has been demonstrated in the general population, its applicability to the study of psychosocial adaptation in rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities has been controversial. OBJECTIVE: The present study was to develop a measure of rehabilitation clients' positive traits, the Adapted Inventory of Virtues and Strengths (AIVS) designed to complement the applicability issues of the VIA-IS. METHOD: Step-by-step AIVS development procedures are presented, and the AIVS factor structure identified via factor analysis is interpreted from a psychosocial adaptation perspective and compared to the VIA-IS factor structure. RESULTS: AIVS subscales include Courage, Integrity, Practical Wisdom, Committed Action, and Emotional Transcendence. Construct validity was assessed by correlating AIVS factors with measures of resilience, life satisfaction, and well-being. CONCLUSIONS: The AIVS offers a reliable framework that has clinical utility for strengths-based rehabilitation practice.