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Definitions of vocational rehabilitation:

• Process "whereby those disadvantaged by illness or diability can be enabled to access, maintain, or return to employment, or other useful occupation"

British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine (2000)

• Process "which enables persons with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive and emotional impairments or health conditions to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining or returning to employment or other useful occupation".

Vocational Rehabilitation Association (2007)

• "Whatever helps someone with a health problem to stay at, return to and remain in work"

Waddell, Burton & Kendall (2008)