Nebraska Workmen's Compensation Law: Rehabilitation - A Helping Process
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Authors
Koester, H. J. W.
Issue Date
1971
Volume
4
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Dr. Alan Keith-Lucas, professor of social work at the University of North Carolina, in addressing a group including ministers, social workers, rehabilitation workers and others involved in helping people resolve problems, made the statement that helping people appears to be a simple matter, but actually it is one of the hardest things one can be called on to do.|When we help people, we offer them an opportunity to make a change necessitated by their circumstance. We are too often confronted with the temptation to decide what we think is best for the individual and offer our idea as the solution. The impaired worker is not necessarily interested in what we think is appropriate for him. He may seem to accept what we are offering because he is not prepared to offer a better plan at the moment. The apparent acceptance is not necessarily deep seated. Its roots may not strike fertile ground in his thinking when he finds time to think it over. You would object to having others make your decisions for you. So does he. He is entitled to make his own decisions and take the consequences resulting from the decision he makes. Where, then, does this leave us in the process of helping him?...
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4 Creighton L. Rev. 261 (1970-1971)
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Creighton University School of Law