Recent federal legislation has provided for the active rehabilitation, by vocational rehabilitation agencies, of socially and economically disadvantaged persons. 11 welfare and 14 rehabilitation clients were compared on the basis of internal-external control expectancy and perception of disability. Salient commonalities exist between the samples that may have implications for intervention strategies used by agencies working with either or both types of clients.
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