AN APPLICATION OF AZRINS JOB CLUB METHODOLOGY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUSTAINED A SPINAL-CORD INJURY

This paper describes the employment achievements of people following s pinal cord injury, and briefly reviews the literature on methods used by job seekers in obtaining employment. The scientific literature on j ob seeking supports the social validity claims of Azrin's behaviourall y-based job club methodology (Azrin, Flores, & Kaplan, 1975) and thus suggests that the job club approach might be successfully offered to p eople with a spinal cord injury who wish to work. A group case study i s presented wherein a modified job club format was utilised with ten s pinal cord injured people. Encouraging results were obtained, both in terms of changed behaviour and in actual employment status.