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Unemployed persons are often
oversensitive and touchy when questioned about many common barriers to
employment and sustained employment.
However, vocational readiness may require facing and coming to
terms with these barriers to employment. Among the "difficult to resolve"
yet common employment barriers are guardedness and defensiveness. Here we are dealing with a
person's problem minimization and attempts to "fake good" or lie. Alcohol abuse and drug abuse
represent other barriers to employment. Many experienced job placement
staff identify more subtle but equally important attitudinal and
motivational factors as employment barriers. It's difficult to prioritize
payment of bills, child care, work clothes, transportation costs to and
from work, valuing a job, peer group influence, family opinions,
completing counseling or treatment, a sense of responsibility, motivation,
etc. etc. Attitudes are
complex products of experience that include enduring preferences,
aversions, beliefs and prejudices that influence our choices, decisions
and behavior. And some people
have never learned how to constructively handle stress and
pressure. Sometimes it is hard for clients
to understand that identifying barriers to employments is the first step
in the process of repair, rehabilitation, and mending. The goal is to remediate or
overcome barriers so they will no longer be significant employment
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The Self-Assessment Index c
consists of 103 items and takes twenty (20) minutes to complete. It has a high 5
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6th grade reading level.
If the client can read the newspaper they can read the
Self-Assessment Index c.
Automated (computer scored and interpreted) on-site reports are
available within 2 minutes of data entry. The Self-Assessment Index c
measures client truthfulness,
quantifies substance (alcohol and other drugs) abuse, assesses work
attitudess and evaluates the clients stress handling
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1.
Truthfulness Scale: measures client truthfulness while they were
completing the test. This
scale identifies denial, guardedness, problem minimization, and attempts
to "fake good." 2.
Alcohol Scale: measures the severity
of alcohol use or abuse.
Measuring "
severity" of alcohol abuse enables staff
to match problem "severity" with treatment / intervention
or program "intensity." 3.
Drug Scale: measures "other illicit drug" abuse. Measuring "
severity" of drub abuse enables staff to
match problem "severity" with treatment / intervention
or program "intensity." 4.
Work Index Scale: measures attitudinal and motivational factors
that influence client's barriers to employment. There is now little doubt that
client attitudes (opinions) influence they employment
longevity. 5.
Stress Coping
Abilities: measures how
well the client handles stress and pressure. A common relapse trigger is
stress, or more accurately, how well the client handles stress (anxiety
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Click on this Self-Assessment Index c link to go to
this tests web page in Behavior Data Systems (BDS) website
www.bdsltd.com. For more cost information, click
this COST link.
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