Rehabilitation Counseling
Master's Program
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Accredited by the Council on Rehabilitation Education, Inc
Rehabilitation counselors facilitate the movement of persons with disabilities toward optimal functioning in learning, living and working. The mission of the UT RC Program is to prepare willing, committed and competent clinicians to provide appropriate rehabilitation services to people who have disabilities. As a mark of the effectiveness of the RC Program in training students, many states actively and regularly recruit professionals from the RC Program at UT before and after graduation.
The purpose of rehabilitation training programs is to ensure that skilled personnel are available to serve the rehabilitation needs of individuals with disabilities assisted through state-federal Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), public rehabilitation agencies, and proprietary rehabilitation companies. The RC Program at the University of Tennessee is dedicated to increasing the number of qualified personnel trained in providing rehabilitation services, as mandated by the Rehabilitation Service Administration (RSA), and as supported by State VR Agencies.
The population served by graduates of the UT RC Master of Science Program includes adults with disabilities as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Individuals qualify for services by having some disability, such as (but not limited to) blindness/visual impairment, deafness/hearing impairment, traumatic brain injury, mobility impairment, and mental illness. Only individuals who have a documented disability are served by rehabilitation agencies. Rehabilitation counseling professionals serve adults who acquire disabilities, were born with disabilities or who have progressively disabling conditions. Often, individuals will receive services as children through special education programs in the schools. In addition to serving adults with acquired/progressive disabilities, the RC Program trains professionals to provide continuity of services when children receiving special education services reach adulthood and are no longer covered under school systems.
Rehabilitation counselors traditionally train as service coordinators and providers. The scope of the degree is not sufficient to allow a graduate to conduct effective mental health counseling or psychotherapy without additional training, supervision, and certifications/licensure. However, some RC graduates continue their training so that they may provide these services, preferring to work specifically with individuals who have disabilities in an applied rehabilitation setting.
The Rehabilitation Counseling (RC) Program at the University of Tennessee (UT) offers a Master of Science (MS) degree and maintains national accreditation from the Council on Rehabilitation Education, Inc. (CORE).
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Updated 11/30/2007
Contact Information
Patrick Dunn, Ph.D. CRC
Program Coordinator
1122 Volunteer Boulevard
A525 Claxton Complex
Knoxville, TN 37996-3452
Phone: 865-974-8013
Fax: 865-974-0135
E-mail: pdunn4@utk.edu
Contact EPC
525 Jane & David Bailey Education Complex
1122 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-3452
Phone: 865-974-8145
Fax: 865-974-0135