title: [The place and function of "assisted employment" in the system of vocational integration of persons with disabilities].
abstract: The Supported Employment model dealt with in the present article has been discussed since the early nineties also among the German professional public, and is increasingly coming to bear as an innovative element in the system for vocational integration of people with disabilities. In implementing a new, "integrative" orientation, it complements traditional approaches by measures in which integration is not perceived as the potentially successful outcome of a predetermined amount of rehabilitee adjustment to "normalcy"; it rather is viewed as a method focussed at initiating a process of mutual rapprochement among working world and disabled worker: disabled jobseekers are first placed in competitive employment, then receive all the supports they need to master the requirements of their job. In addition, the Supported Employment concept, by cooperation and linkage with the existing vocational rehabilitation institutions, has taken on a corrective function, which inter alia in the workshops for the disabled, has entailed renewed and invigorated awareness of the rehabilitative mandate, thus generating increased efforts toward this end.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Sozialpädagogik, Weiterbildung und Empirische Pädagogik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hohmeier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barlsen
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational
vernacular_title: Ort und Funktion der "unterstützten Beschäftigung" im System der beruflichen Eingliederung von Menschen mit Behinderungen.