Job Coaches for Adults with Disabilities (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide
Redaktion: Dillenburger, Karola; Röttgers, Hanns Rüdiger; Bruijn, Marea de; Matuska, Ewa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful employment.

The book includes the perspectives of both people with disabilities and their job coaches, offering first-hand experience of the specific issues faced by those who want to enter the competitive open jobs market. It describes how to provide bespoke support for people with an intellectual disability, physical disability, as well as for autistic people and individuals with mental health conditions. Guidance on functional assessment, task analysis, collaborating with employers and training for new and student job coaches is also included.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784509439
• Artikelnr.: 54748485

Autorenporträt

Edited by Karola Dillenburger, Ewa Matuska, Marea de Bruijn, and Hanns Rüdiger Röttgers. Forewords by Blazej Piasek and Norman Sterritt

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Blazej Piasek. Foreword by Norman Sterrit. Preface. 1. What is a job coach for adults with disabilities? Dr Ewa Matuska
Chair of Management
Pomeranian University
Poland. 2. Having a job coach: An insider perspective. Dr Lyn McKerr
Centre for Behaviour Analysis
Queen's University Belfast
UK
and Caterina Metje
Fachhochschule Münster
Germany 3. Job coaches for adults with mental health conditions. Professor Hanns-Rüdiger Röttgers
Fachhochschule Münster
Germany. 4. Job coaches for adults with physical and sensory disabilities. Trish MacKeogh
Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland
and Marcia Scherer
Centre for Behaviour Analysis
Queen's University Belfast
UK. 5. Job coaches for adults with intellectual disabilities. Dr Ewa Matuska. 6. Job coaches for adults on the autism spectrum. Dr Lyn McKerr and Professor Karola Dillenburger
Centre for Behaviour Analysis
Queen's University Belfast
UK. 7. On-the-job functional assessments. Angelika Anderson
School of Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University of Waikato
New Zealand. 8. Dealing with crisis and challenging behaviours. Dr Brian Fennell
Curry College
Milton
MA
USA and Professor Karola Dillenburger. 9. Collaborating with employers. Dr Lucie Procházková
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education
Masaryk University
Czechia
and Dr Helena Vadurová
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education
Masaryk University
Czechia. 10. Being a job coach: An insider perspective. Dr Lyn McKerr and Karola Dillenburger. 11. Guidelines for training job coaches. Marea de Bruijn
Beroepsvereniging Jobcoaches Nederland
Netherlands.