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24: Facilitating Career Development for Women With Disabilities Using the Client-Focused Considering Work Model

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DOI:

10.1891/9780826158161.0024

Authors

  • CHIU, YUNG-CHEN (JEN)
  • CONYERS, LIZA M.
  • SMAL, PIA
  • CHANG, HSIAO-YING (VICKI)

Abstract

Women who have disabilities face many challenges that, in combination, can have a unique impact on workforce entry, career decision-making, and employment outcomes. In light of these direct outcomes and the critical roles that work can play in alleviating poverty and increasing quality of life, this chapter adapts a client-focused considering work model to highlight the barriers to work for women with disabilities; discuss ways to assess these barriers; and provide a framework for evaluating the considering work process and incorporating varied interventions to address the unique psychosocial, financial/legal, vocational, and medical barriers to employment for women with disabilities. The chapter provides a broad overview of the demographics of women with disabilities. The client-centered considering work model provides a solid framework for exploring and assessing the career decision-making process for women with disabilities.