Going beyond vocational rehabilitation as a training of skills: return-to-work as an identity issue

Disability and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-93

  van Hal, Lineke B E ^a   Meershoek, Agnes ^a   de Rijk, Angelique ^a   Nijhuis, Frans ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

identity work; life stories; vocational rehabilitation; work disability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865884772     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2012.631799     Document Type: Article

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