Encouraging rehabilitation counselling practitioners to enter the arena of journal-writing is an ongoing concern of the profession. This article intends to help authors, especially practitioners who have not submitted previously, organise research materials for writing articles. A model of organising standard components of a professional journal article is presented and discussed. The guidelines presented also provide a summary of the manuscript format and editorial review process. Suggestions presented provide a basis for assisting the rehabilitation counsellor practitioner who is considering writing a journal article.

Occupational stress has become a critical issue for many organisations and individuals in terms of costs to productivity and health. Effective rehabilitation intervention can markedly reduce these costs, yet a successful return to work is often fraught with difficulty due to the plethora of issues contained under the heading of occupational stress. An approach to case analysis and individual assessment has been developed in New South Wales, Australia to assist case managers employed by the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service in the provision of efficacious rehabilitation programs, with the focus on return to work, for individuals with occupational stress.

Organisational restructuring is a pervasive strategy employed by organisations in Australia in response to changes in market competition and/or policy directives. Such restructuring often involves staff redundancies and increased demands on the remaining employees. This paper identifies important issues for workplace rehabilitation programs in response to this phenomenon of organisational restructuring. The paper notes the impact of organisational restructuring on clients in workplace rehabilitation programs and the types of issues rehabilitation professionals are likely to face at this time. A particular focus is the aspect of managerial behaviour during the process of change and the paper reports from a range of studies on employee well-being, managerial bullying and coercion in the context of organisational restructuring. Considerations for the rehabilitation professional include the need to understand communication issues, identify those at risk, and maintain the natural supports during the change program. Suggestions are given for convenors of workplace rehabilitation programs to actively collaborate with the human resource function of the organisation and disability management is outlined as a useful example of such strategies.

When a family member acquires a brain injury the family as a whole is likely to experience severe emotional stress and strain in coping with and adjusting to the injured family member. Longitudinal studies of family adjustment have shown that families find it increasingly difficult to cope with the brain injured family member as the time (years) since injury increases. The increasing difficulty family members experience in coping with their brain injured relative led several researchers to investigate the needs of family members. Research investigating family needs after brain injury is limited to the first couple of years post trauma despite the finding that stress and burden continue to increase as the years progress. This paper reviews family needs research over the last three decades and provides a discussion of family needs and surrounding issues relevant to rehabilitation professionals.

This paper describes the particular circumstances which apply to the maritime industry in the area of occupational rehabilitation. Specific areas arising out of the maritime industry which also apply to the rehabilitation area generally are raised through consideration of the case management process in operation within the maritime industry.