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- Title: Transition to Employment: Role of the Family in Career Development.
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 246 KB
Description
Navigating the transition from school to the workforce often is a challenging process for adolescents and young adults with disabilities. Although much effort has been placed into career development and transition programs, the employment rate for young adults with disabilities is still substantially below that of youth in the general population (Wagner, Newman, Cameto, Garza, & Levine, 2005). Over the last 15 years, many authors have focused on describing the role of school and community programs in better preparing youth with disabilities for positive postschool employment outcomes (Benz, Lindstrom, & Yovanoff, 2000; Phelps & Hanley-Maxwell, 1997). There are, however, relatively few studies that explore the role that families play in influencing career aspirations, providing career-related planning activities, and ultimately shaping postschool employment outcomes for young adults with disabilities. Families have a clear influence on the career development process for all youth, often having a greater impact than peers (Penick & Jepsen, 1992; Whiston & Keller, 2004). In their comprehensive review of the literature, Whiston and Keller found that adolescent career development was influenced by two interdependent family contextual factors: (a) family structural variables (e.g., parents' education and occupation, socioeconomic status), and (b) family process variables (e.g., family relationships, parental aspirations, family support and advocacy; Ferguson, Ferguson, & Jones, 1988; Newman, 2004; Young & Friesen, 1992). In the following section we briefly summarize relevant literature in these two domains.