National Forum on Issues in Vocational Assessment (2nd, Dallas, Texas, March 13-15, 1986). The Issues Papers.

These 43 papers focus on changes in vocational assessment and evaluation. Selected titles include "Review of the Needs of Physically Handicapped Persons in the Vocational Counseling Process and a Possible Solution" (Ranson); "Vocational Assessment in the Management of the Chronic Pain Patient" (Dutton); "Vocational Evaluation of the Individual with Epilepsy" (Nolte); "Back to Work: A Vocational Plan for Chronic Pain" (Curtis, Cook); "Short-term Out-patient Vocational Evaluation for the Rural Population" (Harder); "Modifications of a Career Information Delivery System for Use with Hearing-impaired Persons" (Marut); "Delivery of Vocational Evaluation services to Deaf Persons" (Marut); "Training Opportunity Profile for Visually Impaired Persons (TOP-VIP)" (Peterson); "Vocational Assessment of People with Severe Physical Disability" (Frank); "Vocational Assessment: A Tool Texas Is Putting to Use in Offender (Re)habilitation" (Spitznagel, Dews); "Late Effects of Poliomyelitis" (Fairhurst, Halstead); "Implications of Cognitive-behaviorism for Vocational Evaluation" (Bodenhamer, et al.); "Research Update: A Vocational Evaluation Program for Quadriplegics" (Alfred); "Transitioning Special Education Students from School to Work" (Ashley, et al.); "Personnel Development of School-based Vocational Assessment Personnel" (Peterson); "Assessing the Vocational Adaptivity of High School Students with Mild Cognitive and Intellectual Deficits" (Thomas); "A Vocational Screening Process for Transitional Planning at the 9th Grade Level" (Downs, Conlon); "Vocational Evaluation in the Public Schools--the Virginia Model" (Scott, Prezioso); "The Impact of the Carl D. Perkins Act on Vocational Assessment" (LeConte); "Vocational Assessment as an Aid in the Transitioning Process" (Davis, Foster); "Applications of the Vocational Decision-Making Interview (DMI) to Vocational Rehabilitation and Special Education" (Czerlinsky); "Why Direct Vocational Training Works" (Goodfriend); "A Study Regarding Placement and Performance of Students Receiving Vocational Evaluations" (Evans); "Vocational Assessment in the Public Schools" (Brolin); "Comparison of Vocational Evaluator Positions in Traditional Vocational Rehabilitation, School, and Private-for-profit Settings" (Thomas); "Work Hardening" (Taylor, Blaine); "Ecological Determinants of Vocational Evaluation" (Murphy, Hagner);"Computer Assisted Report Processing in Vocational Evaluation" (Smith, Rothacker); "A Critique of the Research Data Base Relative to Work Adjustment" (Akridge); "Work/Abilities: An Integrative Approach to Vocational Evaluation" (Awtrey, et al.); "Critical Attributes of Vocational Rehabilitation Facilities" (Czerlinsky, Smith); "Vocational Evaluation" (Edgcomb); "A Market Orientation to Vocational Evaluation" (Comegys, Smith); "Data Bases and Vocational Decision Making" (Botterbusch); "Development of a Self-Administered Computerized Vocational Assessment System" (Krass, Conlon); and "Vocational Evaluation: What Direction" (McDaniel). (YLB)