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INTERVIEW TRAINING: helping adults with mental handicaps to find jobs
Author(s) -
Lindsay William R.,
Hood Eileen M.,
Kasprowicz Martin
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of the british institute of mental handicap (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0261-9997
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1988.tb00474.x
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , cover (algebra) , psychology , medical education , applied psychology , job interview , social psychology , medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , meteorology
Although many adults with mental handicaps have the skills to hold down jobs in the community, they often fail to present themselves adequately when they go for an interview or a meeting to discuss a job with a prospective employer. This paper argues for the feasibility of interview training. It outlines a three‐stage programme, with critical interview skills, which is reasonably straightforward to cover with adults with mental handicaps. Two case studies are presented which describe the sorts of problems which can be dealt with in interview training and illustrate the progress which can be achieved.