The goals for Supported Employment in Business: Expanding the Capacity
of Workers with Disabilities is to assist those involved in supported
employment (i. e. , service providers, advocates, consumers, and families)
by revitalizing the body of knowledge about supported employment and
to crystallize in one book the essence of where supported employment
services have been and are to go if full participation of workers with
disabilities is to be achieved. The overall goal of supported employment
is to minimize the impact of disability and this text reviews the methods
to achieve that goal, from both empirical and prescriptive perspectives.

The book is composed of three major parts regarding supported employment.
The first part, Clinical Foundations (how supported employment works) has
seven chapters. Chapter topics include: review of current status and future
directions; establishing business connections; career planning and situational
assessment; creating business alliances; job carving; role of the job coach;
and, natural supports. Part two, Applications of Supported Employment (making
it work), examines supported employment for specific disability groups. Severe
disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, physical disabilities, and traumatic
brain injury are addressed. The final part, Critical Issues in Supported
Employment Implementation, contains eight chapters. Subjects include: conversion
fi7om sheltered work to integrated employment; application of a systems change
model to supported employment; Social Security and Supplemental Security
work incentives; transitions from school to work and adult life; self-employment
goals for supported employment; funding and economic issues; and, federal
employment programs.

There are several highlights to the book. Summary tables and figures, as
well as case studies are extensively used and provide excellent information.
Similar chapter structure and statement of chapter goals