For new and experienced job coaches, and those considering job coaching as a career, this practice-focused guide sets out established standards for supporting adults with physical and intellectual disabilities in long-term employment. It covers essential skills needed for the job, with examples and advice for overcoming specific issues.
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.
Recenzijos
This book offers a unique combination of expertise and personal experiences from a broad range of stakeholders...I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all those interested in the subject area of job coaching. -- From the Foreword by Norman Sterritt DMS, MBA, Progression to Employment Service Manager, Triangle Housing Association and Chair, Northern Ireland Union of Supported Employment This book brings us closer to the world of people with disabilities and the work of job coaches. -- From the Foreword by Blazej Piasek, Warsaw, Poland
Daugiau informacijos
A practice-focused guide to supporting people with physical and intellectual disabilities to enter long-term employment
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 Prochįzkovį, Institute for Research in Inclusive Education, Masaryk
University, Czechia, and Dr Helena Vadurovį, 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.
