IDEOLOGY AND THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OF THE PSYCHIATRICALLY DISABLED.
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Title
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IDEOLOGY AND THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OF THE PSYCHIATRICALLY DISABLED.
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Identifier
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AAI8319764
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identifier
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8319764
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Creator
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FEIN, MELVYN L.
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Contributor
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Gerald Handel
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Date
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1983
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Public and Social Welfare
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Abstract
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A participant observation study of the ideologies used by the organizations and participants in the psychiatric vocational rehabilitation field was conducted by the author over a period of four years. Five major clusters of ideologies were identified as of special significance within the field, namely the (a) medical, (b) psycho-social, (c) educational, (d) moral, and (e) religious models of rehabilitation. Of these, the moral models were found to be predominant in psychiatric rehabilitation practice, while technical models, such as the medical and the educational, tended to be identified with particular psychiatric institutions or rehabilitation agencies, and served mainly justification purposes.;The vocational counselors who were most directly charged with the rehabilitation of clients tended to be "free lance" ideologists who had the ability to choose their own ideological stances. Though many of them attempted to use technical models to guide their work, especially when they were new on the job, they usually found that these ideologies were of little value in helping them meet the pervasive and insistent demands made of them by clients and fellow professionals alike. Ultimately, most found themselves relying by default upon moral ideologies. Despite the preponderant use of these ideologies, however, they tended to be invisible to those who employed them. Allegiance to them also seemed to intensify conflicts between participants in the field, including those between rehabilitation administrators who utilized public/political moralities and counselors who tended to favor personal/private moralities.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
