Purpose: The purpose of this article is to provide rehabilitation counselors an overview of the benefits of the community college system as an option that veterans with service-connected disabilities should consider in helping to make the transition from military to civilian life. We describe veterans with service-connected disabilities, the…

Ideal for use in introductory counseling courses, "Orientation to Professional Counseling" is fully aligned with the 2016 CACREP Standards and contains historical perspectives on the foundations of the profession, an overview of counseling specialties and contemporary issues in the field, and a discussion of anticipated future trends.…

All too often individuals with disabilities in the popular media are portrayed as people to be pitied or super humans to be admired. Film is one important resource that helps form the public's beliefs and dispositions about people with disabilities. With that in mind a film festival was designed to provide authentic representation of people with…

In this article, the authors discuss the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs' (CACREP) role in furthering the specialty of addiction counseling. After sharing a brief history and the role of counselor certification and licensure, the authors share the process whereby CACREP developed the first set of…

An estimate of the appeal of three journals for four groups of rehabilitation professionals with different job functions was computed. Counselors and educators were shown to have reading interests significantly more in line with the Journal of Counseling Psychology and the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin than the Journal of Rehabilitation.…

Described is Personal Achievement Skills Training skill-based approach to group counseling for rehabilitation personnel. (CL)

The Federal Offenders Rehabilitation Program is designed to test experimentally the centrality of employment in offender rehabilitation. Specifically, does appropriate employment, obtained through the services of vocational rehabilitation counseling, change an offender's pattern of behavior? Does this change occur in the direction of integration…

Six adolescents, all females, who were involved in a variety of drug misuse were self-referrals for treatment. Treatment consisted of an initial comprehensive psychological examination, three intensive sessions of hypnosis and a procedure to develop cue association in situations where the girls felt tense. Results were favorable. (Author)

This article provides information on how Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) can be adapted for use in rehabilitation counseling. It states that although clients with an average range of intelligence have responded well to REBT, clients with borderline intellectual functioning are not suitable candidates for cognitive disputing but can be…

The article presents a review of rural life emphasizing health problems and the need for occupational therapists to treat all ages and disabilities. (JS)

Compiled are the papers presented at the lecture series, biographical sketches of the lecturers, a list of doctoral theses in Special Education and Rehabilitation at the University of Southern California, and brief descriptions of graduate study programs at the university in the departments of Special Education and Counselor…

This paper examines the counseling of alcoholics in an effort to determine its value and significance. It includes a cursory look at the development, etiology and history of treatment methods and the role of personality theory. However, the main emphasis is on the different types of counseling used in each particular counseling setting. The…

This study measures the effects of one rehabilitation counselor training program on attitude toward disabled persons, level of communication of the facilitative dimensions, level of client self exploration and level of discrimination as they relate to counseling outcome. (Author/EK)

This KWIC Index was prepared to provide rehabilitation counselors and others concerned with their work and preparation with a basic bibliography in a form which is easy to use. It indexes a substantial portion of the literature published in this field in the last eight years. It is concerned with the types of problems peculiar to rehabilitation…

This manual sets up guidelines, regulations, and responsibilities for counselor trainees, faculty supervisors, agency training supervisors, and training coordinators in the area of rehabilitation counseling. It attempts to bring together academic training and field exercise more closely as well as to give uniformity to a 12 week orientation…