In my master's thesis entitled Employment Rehabilitation through aspects of representation and advocacy, I presented and critically analysed the legal regime of the institute of representation under the Employment Rehabilitation and Employment Rehabilitation Act (assumptions, effects, backgrounds, form, meaning, scope and competence), the role of rehabilitation counsellor in this process and whether an individual in the process of employment rehabilitation is always and fully able to exercise his or her rights and represent individual interests. How and to what extent a person can exercise his or her rights and interests depends on the communication, motivation and autonomy or self-effectiveness of the individual. They may exercise their rights, which cannot be exercised or more difficult to exercise by persons themselves because of their difficulties, by a proxy, representative, advocate or professional assistant. Active representation of persons in this process affects the objectives of the rehabilitation process, including the key possibility of being involved in on-the-job training and the possibility of enrolling in the employment of a disabled person.
The main objective of the task is to present representation and advocacy, to examine dilemmas in this regard, to demonstrate the impact of communication, motivation and autonomy on the objectives of the rehabilitation process, and to present this with practical examples.
At the same time, the task is an analytical report on practical work with case studies of the practice of the Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia at the Office for Work Šentjur, the Office of Labour Šmarje pri Jelšah and the Office of Labour Slovenske Konjice, which are offices in the composition of the Regional Service Celje. I summarised some examples from current practice in anonymised form. I have obtained some direct current data as a cross-section of the current state of representation of persons with disabilities in the rehabilitation process. I have linked, compared and evaluated the data obtained, citing examples of good practice and possible starting points for the future.
The main objective of the thesis is to present representation and advocacy and to examine the dilemmas involved. The thesis also shows the impact of communication, motivation and autonomy on the goals of the rehabilitation process.
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