Maintaining Successful Interventions In Social, Vocational, and Community Rehabilitation

Abstract

This paper will review techniques for promoting the durability of interventions designed to address the return to the community of the chronically mentally disabled client. Specific practitioner techniques are identified, described, and evaluated both in terms of the authors' clinical practice and the research literature. the focus is on social-skills training in general, and in particular, job training, rehabilitation, and community adaptation. They argue that clinicians and researchers should focus on Generalization, Maintenance, and Transfer. This paper presents trainer guidelines and techniques, identifies promising developments, and points to evaluative gaps in our knowledge.