Main description:

The most current book available on rehabilitation counseling!

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to rehabilitation counseling, encompassing its history, values, knowledge, skills, and links to the disability community. Underscoring disability as a common part of the human experience, it highlights the knowledge and competencies all rehabilitation counselors need to provide ethical and effective services. To reflect emerging trends, 13 chapters are either completely rewritten or significantly revised. This text offers a stronger focus on psychiatric rehabilitation and mental health counseling practiced by clinical rehabilitation counselors and incorporates new research and knowledge from breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychopharmacology, innovations in digital communication and technology, and shifts in the economy.

The book examines the broad ranging practice of rehabilitation counseling as an evolving amalgamation of CORE and CACREP and delves into the impact of current societal changes-COVID-19, the economic turndown, issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. It provides an enhanced focus on the demand for clinical and mental health counseling from a rehabilitation perspective and introduces specialized competencies to foster the development of strong advanced skill sets. The text also focuses on the importance of having persons with disabilities participate in their own rehabilitation and as an important component of the development of the field itself. The text is supported by rich ancillaries for educators, including Instructor's Manual, PowerPoints, and Test Bank. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.

New to the Third Edition:

New chapter authors are high caliber experts with unique voices and perspectives who have partnered with senior scholars from previous editions
This new edition is significantly updated to reflect emerging trends that are impacting the professional practice of rehabilitation counseling
Updated chapter on technology in rehabilitation counseling includes distance education, assistive technology and telemental health
New chapter on Counseling and Mental Health

Key Features:

Conceptualizes rehabilitation counseling and its complementary relationship to counseling
Each chapter addresses CACREP standards and includes learning objectives, reflection activities, and content review questions
Extensively addresses both aspects of CACREP specialty identity: traditional rehabilitation counseling and clinical rehabilitation counseling
Includes Appendices with a guide to key acronyms and scope of practice
Case conceptualizations focuses on the delivery of services

Contents:

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Rehabilitation Counseling: A Specialty Practice of the Counseling Profession

PART II. FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 2. History and Evolution of Counseling and Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 3. Concepts and Models in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 4. Rehabilitation Counseling Professional Competencies

Chapter 5. Professional Credentialing in Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 6. Disability Policy and Law in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

PART III. PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Chapter 7. The Person with Disability in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 8. Family and Relationship Issues in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 9. The Disability Rights Community in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 10. Disability Issues in a Global Context in Rehabilitation Counseling

PART IV. PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS

Chapter 11. Assessment in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 12. Counseling and Mental Health in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 13. Clinical Case Management and Coordination in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 14. Advocacy in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 15. Career Development and Employment of People with Disabilities in Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 16. Forensic and Indirect Services in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

PART V. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

Chapter 17. Ethics and Ethical Decision Making in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 18. Cultural Competence and Social Justice in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 19. Evidence-Based Practice and Research Utilization in Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 20. Psychiatric Rehabilitation in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 21. Technology in Rehabilitation Counseling

Chapter 22. Clinical Supervision in the Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Appendix A: Acronyms for Common Terms in Rehabilitation Counseling

Appendix B: Scope of Practice for Rehabilitation Counseling

Index