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Contributions to Rehabilitation for Behavioural Psychology: Then and Now. Behaviour Change

Article in Behaviour Change 20(4):218-222 · December 2003 with 7 Reads
DOI: 10.1375/bech.20.4.218.29382
Abstract
This paper analyses the contribution of behaviourally-oriented psychologists to the field of rehabilitation. Following a brief description of the prominent contribution of behavioural psychology in the period 1950—1970, an analysis of the contents of four contemporary North American behaviour therapy and rehabilitation journals suggests that there is currently little behaviourally-oriented rehabilitation research being published, even though rehabilitation settings in North America have provided the most positions of employment for psychologists over the recent past. It is concluded that, locally, Australian behavioural psychologists could make a valuable contribution to the nation's public health effort by increasing their prominence as researchers and practitioners within the field of rehabilitation.
  • [Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: Post-injury vocational achievement is an important index of successful rehabilitation. This study involved the identification of factors reported to influence (positively or negatively) labour force participation of people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Forty participants were selected from a larger study of 450 based on the most extreme prediction errors from the application of a discriminant function analysis, which aimed to predict vocational achievement (both in and not in the labour force) post-SCI. Participants were interviewed to gain an understanding of their explanations for their labour force status. Factors nominated as most influencing post-injury achievements were family, friends and representatives of pre-injury employers. Implications of these findings for the delivery of rehabilitation services are presented, including the value of having service plans based on a behaviour analysis of the influence of environmental factors.
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