Introduction
Rehabilitation counseling primarily focuses on helping people who have various levels of disability to achieve their personal, career and independent living objectives in their lives. This practice is carried out in rehabilitation centers, hospitals, universities and government agencies, where people are offered material counseling on how to cope with their lives and achieve their targets like other members of the society (Ladany & Inman, 2008).
This is usually done through vocational services offered to certain groups of people and individuals who require rehabilitation counseling to enable them appreciate their conditions and develop an attitude towards positive change for a better life. Professional rehabilitation counselors extend their services to a wide range of persons in the society, right from working-age adults to persons of all age groups who have disabilities of relative degrees.
Rehabilitation counselors provide both specialized and general counseling to people through individual or group’s evaluation and assessment. The research study sought to demystify the facts on the relationships among the stress appraisal process, coping disposition and the level of acceptance of disability on a selected sample for study. When developing the need to understand all these factors, it’s evident that people with disabilities require specialized attention to ensure that they realize the best out of their undertakings. The research hypothesis of the study was that there exists variability in the levels of acceptance among people with disabilities (Groomes & Leahy, 2002).
Method
The study examined the relationship around the anxiety evaluation procedure; adapting air and the level of acknowledgement of handicap around a certain target populace which was acted for by a specimen to assist enhance the nature of the study. One hundred and fifty one persons with different incapacities were haphazardly chosen and asked to finish four review polls that were intended to assemble informative data on the theme of the examination.
The respondents were required to critically understand the key elements in the questionnaires, and freely express their feelings on various salient issues highlighted on the level of acceptance of disability and how they cope with disability disposition as individuals in the society that they live in (Lustig & Rucker, 2002). The questions also related to how people view disabilities, which plays a role in the level of acceptance in their daily undertakings. The data collected was analyzed principally using a newly developed Stress Appraisal Inventory for life. The situations instruments in the analysis resulted in five different components that were developed as a basis for a stress appraisal process that was identified in the research study (Olney & Kennedy, 2002).
Findings and analysis
The study results clearly demonstrated specific meanings that disabled people mostly attribute their stressful situations to. People with disability often find themselves in hard situations especially in a society that discriminates on people with disabilities, making them to develop stigma, which in turn erodes away the courage to cope with their disabilities. More than 60 percent of the respondents said that they pursue acceptance for their disability situations, but the environment they live in does not provide necessities for coping with their status (Wilson & Mitchell, 2002).
Conclusion
Rehabilitation counselors develop mechanisms that are specific and specialized to counsel people with disabilities, so as to help them cultivate acceptance within themselves and for the society to accord them the necessary support. Their levels of acceptance are degraded by the responses that people accord them despite how they may try to cultivate acceptance to cope with their disabilities (Wilson & Mitchell, 2002).
References
Groomes, D., & Leahy, J. (2002). The Relationships among the Stress Appraisal Process, Coping Disposition, and Level of Acceptance of Disability. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin,46 (1), 14-23.
Ladany, N., & Inman, A. (2008). Handbook of Counseling Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Lustig, D., & Rucker, F. (2002). The Relationship between Working Alliance and Rehabilitation Outcomes. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin,46 (1), 24-32.
Olney, M., & Kennedy, J. (2002). Racial Disparities in VR Use and Job Placement Rates for Adults with Disabilities. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 45 (3), 177- 185.
Wilson, K., & Mitchell, A. (2002). Predicting VR Acceptance Based on Race, Gender, Education, Work Status at Application, and Primary Source of Support at Application. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin,45 (3), 132-142.