Inside the Workday of Employment Consultants: New Insights on Strengthening Employment Services.
Background: Most employment consultants access professional development to learn about best practices in supported and customized employment that lead to individual integrated employment. However, little is known about how widely these best practices are actually implemented. Objective: This article...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 61 - 73 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan2026
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