This course provides an overview of the meaning of disability in a personal, cultural, and social perspective. It is an opportunity to increase your awareness of different types of disabilities, and the well-being of people with disabilities in US society.

This course is intended to provide students with an introduction to rehabilitation counseling practice to understand the developmental milestones across the lifespan for individuals with disabilities. Specific attention is given to major categories of disabilities, their limitations, and psychosocial responses to transitional phases and adjustments across the lifespan.

This course provides supervised field experience in a rehabilitation- relevant community agency or program, under the supervision of a professional in this field. It is designed to give undergraduate students in Disability and Human Studies an introduction to professional practice in rehabilitation. In addition, it provides opportunities to develop knowledge and skill important to professional practice through supervised clinical activities.

This course is designed to prepare rehabilitation and mental health counselors, social workers and students in related fields with a working knowledge of the medical and psychosocial aspects of physical disability and chronic illness, and to provide students with the knowledge and understanding necessary to function and serve effectively in rehabilitation counseling and related interdisciplinary, allied health, and mental health settings.

This course is designed to prepare rehabilitation and mental health counselors, social workers, and students in related fields with a working knowledge of the medical and psychosocial aspects of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disabilities, and to provide students with the knowledge and understanding necessary to function and serve effectively in counseling and related interdisciplinary, allied health, and mental health settings.

The course provides a comprehensive introduction to rehabilitation and clinical mental health counseling as a human service system in public and private organizations. Students will examine and analyze philosophical, historical, legislative and organizational structures; rehabilitation and related clinical mental health counseling programs; referral and service delivery systems; the rehabilitation counseling process; administration of rehabilitation clinical mental health counseling programs; and professional and ethical issues.

This course is designed to assist students to develop an understanding of the implications of cultural and individual diversity including race/ethnicity, gender, disability, age, class, spirituality and religion, geographic region, and sexual orientation. This course will provide an overview of social justice, culturally diverse counseling techniques, and identify how cultural values, beliefs, attitudes, public policies, and "isms" influence consumers and service providers.

This course is designed to provide students with information about the disease concept and etiology of addiction and co-occurring disorders, theories and models and research of substance-related and addiction disorders, behavioral, psychosocial and physiological effects of alcohol and other drugs, screening, evaluation and assessment, diagnosis, treatment intervention, counseling strategies, and mental health counseling to address issues pertaining to multiculturalism, crises, disaster and trauma, family, prenatal exposure, co-occurring disorders, sexual orientation, and adult children of a

Study of a selected topic within the field of rehabilitation. Topic to be chosen annually in accordance with student needs and interests. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

This course emphasizes the basic principles of helping persons with disabilities within the rehabilitation and clinical mental health processes. The course fosters both an appreciation and knowledge of how various theories and research findings translate into appropriate rehabilitation and clinical mental health counseling techniques. The course explores the roles or functions that rehabilitation and clinical mental health counselors play as they work in different clinical rehabilitation and counseling programs and agencies.