Rehabilitation Counseling
Accredited by the Council on Rehabilitation Education, Inc
Course Descriptions
RC 530 Orientation to Rehabilitation utilizes student interviews to test principles and concepts regarding psychological adjustment of people with severe disabilities and with state agency rehabilitation counselors.
RC 532 Caseload Management in Rehabilitation focuses on practices common to State VR Agency rehabilitation counselor functions. This course involves State Agency caseload management simulations.
RC 533 Job Analysis, Development and Placement enables students to tour factories, perform job analyses, and practice job placement and marketing strategies with local personnel managers.
RC 537 Vocational Evaluation: Clinical Methods provides students with opportunities to learn about computer-assisted vocational assessments and evaluations by conducting actual assessments at local rehabilitation agencies. Job analyses are performed in industry as a means of learning about occupational requirements and essential functions and the person-job matching process. Students learn to perform functional assessments, determine eligibility, and prepare Individual Plans for Employment (IPE).
RC 538 Current Issues in Rehabilitation Counseling discusses major topics in rehabilitation including assistive technology, ethics, professional issues, and emerging topics in the rehabilitation field. As part of this course, students will begin a research project that will be completed as a part of the comprehensive examination portfolio.
RC 541 Psychosocial and Multicultural Aspects of Disability explores the psychosocial impact of disability on person and family. Reaction to loss, coping with disability, and societal rehabilitation.
RC 543 Physical Disabilities, Rehabilitation and Employment encompasses classrooms lectures and medical consultation sessions at local VR offices to enable students to understand the medical and consequent vocational aspects of disabilities.
RC 544 Cognitive Disabilities, Rehabilitation and Employment examines mental illness, developmental disabilities, effects of brain trauma, and substance abuse; their effect upon individuals’ abilities to live, learn and work; and treatment and rehabilitation strategies. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is discussed in detail as a part of this course.
RC 545 The Rehabilitation Interview introduces and allows students to practice basic counseling skills and levels of empathy and other dimensions of helping.
RC 547 Practicum in Rehabilitation is taught concurrent to RCE 532. Each counselor carries a 'live caseload' of three (3) rehabilitation consumers/clients for fifteen (15) weeks.
RC 549 Internship in Rehabilitation provides the pre-professional student with opportunities to work in the field of rehabilitation. This is a full-time clinical experience of supervised practice for second year students.
RC 579 Special Topics
Prereq: Admission to graduate program. May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Letter or Satisfactory/No Credit grading.
591 Research Project in Rehabilitation Counseling explore and research rehaabilitation counseling issues directly related to employment, couselor functions, and/or treatment variables.
EP 550 Statistics and Research Design: Conceptual explores and researches issues directly related to consumer-oriented, conceptual treatment of statistics, research design, and quantitative basis of testing.
CE 551 Theory of Practice of Counseling explores the philosophical basis for helping relationships, the development of counselor and client self-awareness, and counseling theories and techniques.
CE 554 Group Dynamics and Methods explores: theory and types of groups; descriptions of group practices; methods, facilitative skills and dynamics of group work; and supervision of leadership skills.
CE 570 Cross-Cultural Counseling provides students with the information and skills needed to effectively serve a diverse group of individuals. Includes theories and research on issues and problems in counseling clients from different cultural backgrounds in the United States and abroad.
Updated 8/06/2008
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525 Jane & David Bailey Education Complex
1122 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-3452
Phone: 865-974-8145
Fax: 865-974-0135