The purpose of this article is to discuss recent changes in the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification "Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors", effective January 1, 2010, that are most relevant to rehabilitation counselor educators. The authors provide a brief overview of these key changes along with implications…

Rehabilitation counselor education has shifted its curriculum and focus to conform to changes in federal policy as a means of gaining federal training funds. Changes have jeopardized rehabilitation counseling's identity and status as independent profession. Rehabilitation counselor education must reassert the field's competence in the area of…

Surveyed 75 rehabilitation counseling programs concerning master's degree level research instruction. Found research topics most likely to be included were research design and statistics. Some offered specific rehabilitation research course. Educators agreed that primary goal of rehabilitation research education is to teach students to become…

This reply to the ARCA Research Committee's criticisms first offers a brief review of the contents of Working Paper No. 7 as well as a history of the controversy surrounding the paper. (Author)

The University of Wisconsin Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute, in their development of criteria for evaluating RCE programs, compared the perceptions of three groups of rehabilitation professionals on the importance of RCE curriculum content areas. It concludes that it is possible to obtain a consensus of the relevancy of RCE program…

This is the response of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association's Research Committee to the research report, From Student to Practitioner: Professionalism and De-Professionalism in Rehabilitation Counseling, Working Paper No. 7. The authors of this critique present certain criticisms of the paper's methodology and validity and offer…

This study examined supervisor commitment to supervisee as a variable related to the supervisor's provision of the facilitative dimensions of empathy, warmth, and genuineness. Results support the hypothesis that a positive relationship exists between a supervisor's commitment to his or her supervisee and the supervisor's ability to offer the…

Two rehabilitation counselor educators predicted levels of empathy in three different situations of student contact, in academic courses, prepracticum interpersonal skills training, and advanced practicum supervision. (Author)

Surveyed 235 rehabilitation educators to identify their perceptions of actual and preferred instructional emphasis in bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and continuing education programs. Results suggested a preference for greatest emphasis at the master's level, with a preference for strong research rather than clinical practice focus in doctoral…

Nationwide sample of rehabilitation educators (n=139) responded to survey regarding their self-perceived abilities to teach competencies relevant to rehabilitation practice. Educators perceived abilities to be highest in teaching Vocational Counseling, Personal Adjustment Counseling, and Professional Development and Community Involvement. Found no…

This study compared three rehabilitation counseling styles, information providing, information exchanging and psychotherapy, with least difficult, moderately difficult and most difficult clients respectively. The first and last styles led to high success rates, supporting counselor educators' claims that graduate training programs emphasizing…

Surveyed 32 master's degree programs in rehabilitation counseling to determine inclusion of curriculum content on learning disabilities before 1981 and alterations in curriculum after 1981 when eligibility for vocational rehabilitation services through state and federal vocational rehabilitation systems were extended to persons with learning…

Experimental disability offers rehabilitation counselor educators and trainers a vehicle for developing student-counselor awareness and sensitivity to psychosocial problems of disability. Gestalt counseling techniques, which emphasize the bipolarities of the disability experience, are used to explore the feelings, behaviors, and attitudes…

Counselors and supervisors were asked to rate the importance of 62 areas of competence, as well as rate their own competence in each of the areas. Results are discussed as they relate to preprofessional and postemployment training programs for state agency rehabilitation counselors. (Author)

Discusses the ethical issues inherent in rehabilitation counseling, including emerging ethical standards in rehabilitation counselor supervision, supervisory relationship vulnerability and codes of ethics applicable to rehabilitation supervision, and ethical concerns that are common to supervision. (JPS)