-The reviewer has been responsible for 'teaching' the vocational aspects of counseling for several years. This book will serve as an outstanding text in preparing educational and rehabilitative counselors. Viewing the messages in this book from the position of a practitioner, I would feel that every practitioner could learn from it. Lastly, this book will familiarize those who are not counselors with the current status of what is known about why people work and will offer constructive ideas regarding how to approach those who 'will not work.' As a final testimony to the excellence of this book, I will be ordering it for my class as soon as I complete this sentence.-
--Philip A. Perrone, the Journal of Human Resources
-Sociologists specializing in work behavior will find this book well written.-
--C. E. Tygart, American Sociological Review
-It is becoming increasingly apparent that a significant proportion of the U.S. population fails to make a successful, long-term adaptation to employment. Aside from the structural barriers affecting vocational opportunities for a portion of this population, there are significant numbers of individuals whose vocational deficiencies are attributable to physical and mental incapacities. Neff has pent a major portion of his professional life attempting to understand the impact of disability on individual behavior and developing appropriate methods whereby disabled individuals might acquire the behavioral competencies to sustain themselves in employment. This book, therefore, summarizes the view of one who has played a significant role in the development of vocational rehabilitation. . . . This book . . . represents a singular effort to define and place in perspective issues concerning adjustment of individuals to the demands of work.-
--William H. Button, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
"The reviewer has been responsible for 'teaching' the vocational aspects of counseling for several years. This book will serve as an outstanding text in preparing educational and rehabilitative counselors. Viewing the messages in this book from the position of a practitioner, I would feel that every practitioner could learn from it. Lastly, this book will familiarize those who are not counselors with the current status of what is known about why people work and will offer constructive ideas regarding how to approach those who 'will not work.' As a final testimony to the excellence of this book, I will be ordering it for my class as soon as I complete this sentence."
--Philip A. Perrone, the Journal of Human Resources
"Sociologists specializing in work behavior will find this book well written."
--C. E. Tygart, American Sociological Review
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that a significant proportion of the U.S. population fails to make a successful, long-term adaptation to employment. Aside from the structural barriers affecting vocational opportunities for a portion of this population, there are significant numbers of individuals whose vocational deficiencies are attributable to physical and mental incapacities. Neff has pent a major portion of his professional life attempting to understand the impact of disability on individual behavior and developing appropriate methods whereby disabled individuals might acquire the behavioral competencies to sustain themselves in employment. This book, therefore, summarizes the view of one who has played a significant role in the development of vocational rehabilitation. . . . This book . . . represents a singular effort to define and place in perspective issues concerning adjustment of individuals to the demands of work."
--William H. Button, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
"The reviewer has been responsible for 'teaching' the vocational aspects of counseling for several years. This book will serve as an outstanding text in preparing educational and rehabilitative counselors. Viewing the messages in this book from the position of a practitioner, I would feel that every practitioner could learn from it. Lastly, this book will familiarize those who are not counselors with the current status of what is known about why people work and will offer constructive ideas regarding how to approach those who 'will not work.' As a final testimony to the excellence of this book, I will be ordering it for my class as soon as I complete this sentence."
--Philip A. Perrone, the Journal of Human Resources
"Sociologists specializing in work behavior will find this book well written."
--C. E. Tygart, American Sociological Review
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that a significant proportion of the U.S. population fails to make a successful, long-term adaptation to employment. Aside from the structural barriers affecting vocational opportunities for a portion of this population, there are significant numbers of individuals whose vocational deficiencies are attributable to physical and mental incapacities. Neff has pent a major portion of his professional life attempting to understand the impact of disability on individual behavior and developing appropriate methods whereby disabled individuals might acquire the behavioral competencies to sustain themselves in employment. This book, therefore, summarizes the view of one who has played a significant role in the development of vocational rehabilitation. . . . This book . . . represents a singular effort to define and place in perspective issues concerning adjustment of individuals to the demands of work."
--William H. Button, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
