Career Planning Curriculum: Instructor's Guide and Reference Handbook is designed to guide rehabilitation practitioners in helping people with psychiatric disabilities to specify and to plan for the attainment of vocational goals that reflect both reality and hope.

The content of the curriculum is derived from the choose-get-keep approach to psychiatric vocational rehabilitation developed at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University This approach integrates effective practices of vocational rehabilitation with tested psychiatric rehabilitation principles to help people with psychiatric disabilities to develop the skills, supports, and experiences they need to gain satisfying and successful employment in an occupation of choice.

The curriculum is the culmination of years of experience and feedback from participants and practitioners at the Center's Career Education Program and Career Achievement Services, programs consisting of classroom instruction and intensive peer and professional support that have served over 250 individuals with psychiatric disabilities during the last 12 years. Earlier versions of the curriculum also have been used in a range of clinical and educational settings.

Although the curriculum is detailed and comprehensive, skilled psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners are encouraged to tailor the curriculum to meet the unique needs of individuals they serve.

The Instructor's Guide set includes an instructor's copy of the reference handbook. Reference handbooks for participants must be purchased separately. There is a 20% discount when ordering 10 or more reference handbooks.

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