Rehabilitation Services Program


Faculty Awards and Achievements


Our Rehabilitation Services Program faculty come from two of the top graduate programs in rehabilitation in the country and continue to be nationally recognized with awards, publications, and presentations.  We want to make your experience successful; we provide a mentoring program, develop scholarships and grants to help students pay for school, take trips to national conferences, and advise the rehab club. 


 

Karen E. Barrett

Recent awards

  • New Career in Rehabilitation Award, National Council on Rehabilitation Education

  • Community Service Award, University of Maine at Farmington


A sample of professional activities

  • Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Rehabilitation and Journal of Rehabilitation Administration

  • Member National Council on Rehabilitation Education Subcommittee on Undergraduate Education


Sample publications

  • Barrett, K. E., Upton, T. D., & Riggar, T. F. (2001). Decision-making certainty of vocational rehabilitation impartial hearing officers. Journal of Rehabilitation Administration, 25(3), 129-136.

  • Barrett, K. E. & Pullo, R. E. (1993). Attitudinal change in undergraduate rehabilitation students as measured by the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons scale. Rehabilitation Education, 7, 119-126.

Douglas A. Dunlap

Recent awards
  • Billings Prize for Public Speaking, Harvard University Divinity School (April 1999)

  • Service Learning Award for contributions to the university effort to integrate community service with classroom learning, University of Maine at Farmington (March 2003)

A sample of professional activities

  • Founder of UMF Institute on Rural Poverty, a project to involve faculty and students in research and service related to causes and effects of poverty in rural America.

  • Co-founder of international relationship between University of Maine at Farmington and the Komi Pedagogical Institute, Russia, resulting in
    faculty and student exchanges.


Sample publications

  • Barrett, K. E., Taylor, D. W., Pullo, R. E., & Dunlap, D. A. (1998). The right to refuse medication:  Navigating the ambiguity. Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 21(3), 241-249.

  • Dunlap, D. A. (1990). Rural psychiatric rehabilitation and the interface of community development and rehabilitation services.  Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 14(1), 67-90.

Jewel L. Jones

Recent awards

  • Faculty of the year 2002-2003 and Faculty of the year runner-up 2005-2006

  • Faculty Excellence in Service-Learning Award, University of Maine at Farmington


A sample of professional activities

  • Member National Council on Rehabilitation Education Subcommittee on Undergraduate Education

  • Co-coordinator for the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services


Sample Publications

  • Barrett, K. E., & Jones, J. L. (2005). Community rehabilitation programs/supported employment. In Crimando, W. & Riggar, T. F. (Eds.), Community Resources:  A guide for human service workers.  Waveland Press: IL.

  • Jones, J., & Jones, J. (2001). Clarifying the confustion between the Americans with Disability Act and Social Security Disability Insurance. Journal of Rehabilitation Administration, 25(1), 43-50.

Robert E. Pullo

A sample of Professional Activities

  • S.A.D. 9 Board Member

  • Former faculty senate member University of Maine at Farmington


Sample publications

  • Barrett, K. E., Taylor, D. W., Pullo, R. E., & Dunlap, D. A. (1998). The right to refuse medication:  Navigating the ambiguity. Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 21(3), 241-249.

  • Barrett, K. E. & Pullo, R. E. (1993). Attitudinal change in undergraduate rehabilitation students as measured by the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons scale. Rehabilitation Education, 7, 119-126.