Reviews and examines the professionalization, deprofessionalization, and reprofessionalization of rehabilitation counseling according to selected descriptors of professionalism. Presents recommendations designed to facilitate the continuation of rehabilitation counseling's professional development. (Author)

Presents an interview with Clayton A. Morgan, a distinguished rehabilitation counselor educator. Focuses on Morgan's experience and insight in areas such as the helping relationship, noncounseling variables in counseling, creative thinking and applied imagination, selection of graduate students, and communication. (Author/ABL)

Presents interview conducted with Beatrice A. Wright, a prominent rehabilitation psychologist. Discusses various aspects of Wright's personal life, her scholarly contributions, professional development, and the field of rehabilitation psychology and counseling in general. (Author)

Provides updated figures on handicapping conditions in school-aged and adult populations from information originally presented in authors' 1979 article. Discusses impact of changes in federal legislation, focusing more heavily on adult handicapping conditions and rehabilitation services. (Author/CM)

Views disability as opportunity for reframing physical and emotional difficulties. Explores strategies for facilitating personal healing and empowerment, including self-forgiveness and positive self-talk. (Authors/CM)

Highlights major changes in school and rehabilitation counselor preparation over past decade following Howie's 1979 counselor preparation recommendations. Suggests specific counselor competencies needed to provide comprehensive services. Describes how to integrate competencies within applicable accreditation guidelines. (Authors/CM)

Developed computer-based rehabilitation caseload management simulation and administered simulation to 18 rehabilitation students and 18 rehabilitation counselors. Performance was evaluated using six caseload management performance indicators. Performance indicators, derived from computer simulation, were found to be effective in differentiating…

Summarizes findings of other articles in terms of progress made during last decade in area of counseling persons with disabilities, as well as problems remaining. Proposes several idealistic scenarios for counselors and other human development specialists to use as guidelines for future work with people who are disabled. (Author)

Claims role of counseling in enabling students with disabilities has changed, with other personnel in school settings now counseling students with disabilities, in addition to school and rehabilitation counselors. Provides support for this claim from national survey. Notes specific roles of other counseling-related personnel. Discusses…

Delineates specific steps necessary to successfully recruit and retain American Indians in counselor training programs, proposes a curriculum for training counselors to effectively provide services to American Indians with disabilities, and discusses the responsibility of counselor educators to concern themselves with the "job placement" of their…

Reviews current career counseling efforts to assist special education students in successfully making transition to employment and independent living. Presents life-centered career education curricular approach to prepare students with competencies needed for successful adult adjustment. Presents challenge to profession to complete unfinished…