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Job coaches for adults with disabilities : a practical guide / edited by Karola Dillenburger, Ewa Matuska, Marea de Bruijn, and Hanns Rüdiger Röttgers ; forewords by Blazej Piasek and Norman Sterritt.

Dillenburger, Karola, 1956- (editor.). Matuska, Ewa, (editor.). Bruijn, Marea de, (editor.). Röttgers, H. R. (Hanns Rüdiger), (editor.). Piasek, Blazej, (writer of introduction.). Sterritt, Norman, (writer of introduction.).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781785925467
ISBN: 1785925466
Physical Description: 224 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: London, UK ; Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

What is a job coach for adults with disabilities? / Dr. Ewa Matuska -- Having a job coach : an insider perspective / Dr. Lyn McKerr and Caterina Metje -- Job coaches for adults with mental health conditions / Professor Hanns-Rüdiger Röttgers -- Job coaches for adults with physical and sensory disabilities / Trish MacKeogh and Marcia Scherer -- Job coaches for adults with intellectual disabilities / Dr. Ewa Matuska -- Job coaches for adults on the autism spectrum / Dr. Lyn McKerr and Professor Karola Dillenburger -- On-the-job functional assessments / Dr. Angelika Anderson -- Dealing with crisis and challenging behaviours / Dr Brian Fennell -- Collaborating with employers / Dr. Lucie Procházková and Dr. Helena Vadurová -- Being a job coach : an insider perspective / Dr. Lyn McKerr and Karola Dillenburger -- Guidelines for training job coaches / Marea de Bruijn.