The Psychiatrist and the State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency
LESTON L. HAVENS M.D.1, and
GERALD E. CUBELLI M.S.2
1 Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, Mass. 02115 and Principal Psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center
2 Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, Mass. 02115
The state vocational rehabilitation agency offers an important potential for serving the psychiatric patient. If this resource is to be fully utilized, the authors point out, psychiatrists must assume a greater role in psychiatric consultation and in the provision of training for counselors.
