A Roadmap for Rehabilitation Counseling to Serve Military Veterans with Disabilities

摘要

Providing rehabilitation services to military veterans with disabilities presents unique and rewarding challenges for rehabilitation professionals. The need for these services has grown tremendously with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The rehabilitation field needs a roadmap for understanding how its strengths can uniquely serve military veterans most appropriately. This paper outlines a five-pronged approach that will benefit outcomes for veterans with disabilities through: (1) infusing veterans' issues into rehabilitation training; (2) focusing on distinct employment needs for veterans; (3) using self-management techniques to manage secondary disabilities; (4) using a Family Resiliency Model to address the holistic needs of veterans and their families; and (5) the call for rehabilitation to develop researchers that focus on veterans' issues. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]