The goals for Supported Employment in Business: Expanding the Capacity of Workers with Disabilities is to assist those involved in supported employment (i.e., service providers, advocates, consumers, and families) by revitalizing the body of knowledge about supported employment and to crystallize in one book the essence of where supported employment services have been and are to go if full participation of workers with disabilities is to be achieved. The overall goal of supported employment is to minimize the impact of disability and this text reviews the methods to achieve that goal, from both empirical and prescriptive perspectives.

The book is composed of three major parts regarding supported employment. The first part, Clinical Foundations (how supported employment works) has seven chapters. Chapter topics include: review of current status and future directions; establishing business connections; career planning and situational assessment; creating business alliances; job carving; role of the job coach; and, natural supports. Part two, Applications of Supported Employment (making it work), examines supported employment for specific disability groups. Severe disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, physical disabilities, and traumatic brain injury are addressed. The final part, Critical Issues in Supported Employment Implementation, contains eight chapters. Subjects include: conversion fi7om sheltered work to integrated employment; application of a systems change model to supported employment; Social Security and Supplemental Security work incentives; transitions from school to work and adult life; self-employment goals for supported employment; funding and economic issues; and, federal employment programs.

There are several highlights to the book. Summary tables and figures, as well as case studies are extensively used and provide excellent information. Similar chapter structure and statement of chapter goals in introductions are utilized. Concise, yet easy to read, language and style allow for use by more than professionals in the field. Potential audience includes special educators, rehabilitationists, advocates, administrators, employers, psychologists, allied medical personnel, adult service providers, guidance counselors, vocational educators, persons with disabilities and their families. It is an excellent textbook for masters degree courses in rehabilitation counseling.

Paul Wehman, the editor/author is the most respected individual in the area of supported employment. He is professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Virginia, as well as director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports at Virginia Commonwealth University. His contributions to the area have been essential to the implementation and refinement of supported employment.

Supported employment for both individuals and society is critical. "The more that the concepts of supports can permeate not only the human service system, but communities and society as a whole, the more infused into the mainstream of daily life will individuals with disabilities become" (p. ix). Implementing the recommendations contained in Supported Employment in Business: Expanding the Capacity of Workers with Disabilities will further the employment potential for hundreds of thousands of people.

Joseph E. Havranek, Ed.D., CRC, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio