This selective review provides an overview of salient research findings related to employers' attitudes towards disability and prospective influences on employers to improve employment outcomes of people with disabilities. Research studies included for review are mainly those which investigated employer attitudes towards disability as predispositions to hiring people with disability. Selected studies were classified into three categories including hiring and accommodating employees with disabilities, work performance, and affective reactions and behavioural intentions of employers. Excluded from the review were studies that investigated other factors influencing employer attitudes toward disability. Altogether 34 research studies from the period of 1987 until 2012 were included in the review. Primary databases for the review included ProQuest, Ebscohost, Lexus Nexus, ERICK Database and the Sage Sociology Collection. This review of the demand-side employment literature suggests employers hold relatively positive attitudes regarding individuals with disabilities. However, employer affective reactions and behavioural intentions of employers towards disability in the work setting were less positive and negatively impact hiring decisions, provision of accommodations and work performance appraisals. Employer attitudes represent an important demand-side factor impacting full participation in competitive employment for individuals with disabilities. While employers report generally positive attitudes toward disability, hiring practices may still be discriminatory. Use by rehabilitation professionals of demand-side strategies with employers would likely result in higher rates of work participation by people with disabilities.

This article describes an integrated treatment approach for partner abusers and presents pilot study results. The authors based their treatment model primarily on battering explanations drawn from social learning theory, feminist theory, and psychodynamic theory. The focus of treatment is to address the overt and identifiable links to battering with feminist/cognitive-behavioral interventions and the less discrete, early maladaptive relational models with psychodynamic therapy. Specific examples and explanations are provided to illustrate the integration process. Results of the 15-week pilot treatment program indicated that men who completed the program (n = 21) reported a reduction in physical and psychological aggression toward their partners. Interviews with a small number of partners (« = 13) indicated reduction or elimination of battering 12-24 months following completion of treatment.Couple violence continues to be a major problem in our culture. Straus (1994) held that a person is more likely to be hit or killed at home by a family member than at any other place or by any other person. In particular, 16%, or approximately 8.7 million, marital couples experience physical violence each year (Straus, 1999). However, despite growing awareness of its destructiveness and broad-based attempts to stem its occurrence through treatment and consciousness-raising, partner assault continues to

Increased attention to evidence-based practice (EBP) among rehabilitation professionals closely corresponds to recent interest in knowledge translation, which connects quality research to rehabilitation practice aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities. Despite the importance of knowledge translation for rehabilitation professionals, the concept is often overlooked or misunderstood. This article provides a brief review of knowledge translation to clarify potential misconceptions. In addition, communities of practice (CoPs) are introduced as a specific tool for knowledge translation. An overview of CoPs and guidelines for design, development, and use are reviewed. The flexibility and common ownership of CoPs provide an ideal approach for rehabilitation researchers, practitioners, and consumers to work together to develop knowledge and effective practice guidelines.

HR professionals report a need for current, relevant information on this topic, and participants outline guidelines for developing the CoP and building useful content areas.

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