Maintaining, and Exiting.

Existing theories of career development have been criticized in the rehabilitation liter-ature for having questionable applicability to persons with disabilities. Given the diver-sity of disabilities and of persons with disabilities, the authors doubt that a generally applicable theory can be developed. They propose a viable alternative to guide rehabil-itation counseling practice: a framework that posits that the career development of in-dividuals (including those with disabilities) at any given point in their lives can be classified into one or more statuses, each of which calls for different interventions. Thes