Early Intervention in Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Acquired Disabilities

Abstract

There are many scenarios that can lead to disabilities and its manifestation can have a large number of varieties including the type of disability, the degree of visibility of the disability, course of the condition and experience of pain and other symptoms. Acquiring a disability is extremely difficult experience and person sudden exists in different world comparing with ones before acquiring disability. Changes can occur in physical, mental, social, vocational and family functioning. Rehabilitation often begins in the hospital setting. The goals of rehabilitation are to help persons with acquired disabilities achieve maximum functional independence as much as possible and to attain the best possible quality of life and life satisfaction. In this article is discussed importance of early intervention in vocational rehabilitation. Evidence suggest that early intervention in vocational rehabilitation is more effective than late. Early intervention strategies lead to faster return to work. The timing of the interventions play a key role in returning to vocational activities. Recent researches have showed that early rehabilitation is more associated with factors that usually predict better health and better job satisfaction, such as a permanent job, high occupational status, good job control, low job insecurity, and healthy lifestyle.