Provides overview and critique of rehabilitation counselor roles and functions studies. Recommends future rehabilitation research efforts be directed toward solving more important theoretical and practical research questions. (Author/CM)

Provides critical assessment of this special journal issue devoted to credentialing in rehabilitation counseling and credentialing movement in general. Contends that primary purpose of professional credentialing in counseling is not to protect the weak but rather to increase the power, authority, and incomes of the strong. Advises caution in…

Discusses factors involved in addressing question of whether rehabilitation counselors with rehabilitation counseling master's degrees are more competent and effective than other counselors. Discusses differences between education and training; methodological considerations; and political and moral aspects. Asserts that assuring appropriate…

Examined psychosocial functioning and transition to adult status following adolescent closed head injury. Used case study approach to describe changes in functioning following discharge and return to family and school from perspective of injured individual and primary caregiver. Found dependence in many areas of adult functioning, underscoring…

This article presents a detailed counseling strategy based on the principles of verbal operant conditioning. It argues that such a strategy should be effective for working with vocational rehabilitation clients whose main complaint is that they are unable to make vocational decisions. (Author)

Examined attitudes of beginning rehabilitation counseling graduate students (n=80) toward persons with disabilities and relationship of their attitudes to self-esteem and prior exposure to persons with disabilities. Found positive relationship between self-esteem and attitudes toward persons with disabilities but no relationship between prior…

Findings indicated that rehabilitation counselors and social workers are sensitive in different ways to the paradox of trying to alleviate chronic dependence by means of erecting formal and temporary dependent relationships. (Author)

The "Stages of Change Scale-Substance Abuse" (SCS-SA) was developed to measure readiness to change among individuals in treatment for substance abuse and was field tested with 457 participants. Factor analysis on SCS-SA items defined 4 subscales: Precontemplation, Determination, Participation, and Relapse. The SCS-SA appears to have potential in…

Investigated whether stigmatization of obese persons has affected rehabilitation counseling students' perceptions of such clients. Results suggest that rehabilitation students perceive obese clients more negatively. If a counselor's first impression of an obese client is that he is less competent and less attractive, rehabilitation outcome could…

This study investigated the future life style preferences of 118 undergraduate rehabilitation education majors at Pennsylvania State University. (Author)

Surveyed 50 graduate students in rehabilitation counseling regarding their attitudes toward the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE). Found the students more likely to endorse those aspects of the PWE reflecting the intrinsic value of work than those dealing with earnings, social status, and advancement for themselves and disabled persons. (Author)

This article is a follow-up to an earlier survey in which the institutional sources of scholarly contributions to the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin from 1962-71 were identified. Results for the last five years indicate both substantial similarities and differences from the earlier survey. (Author)

Investigated the relationship between the accuracy of counselor perceptions of client work values and client satisfaction with service received. Participants were recruited from five rehabilitation workshops. Counselor and client perceptions of client work values were significantly different and a significant relationship existed between the…

Compared interpersonal characteristics of rehabilitation counseling (RC) students with those of other college students to study effects of counselors' interpersonal characteristics on counseling outcomes. RC students demonstrated more moderate levels of expressing inclusion, expecting submission, and wanting control. Women wanted and expressed…