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Orientation To Disability & Community Resources

This course is intended to provide an overview of the breadth of agencies, programs, and services involved in the provision of rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities, including medical, educational, institutional, and community resources. An overview of the relationships among agencies, staffing patterns, funding sources, and professionals involved in providing services to individuals with disabilities is included.

Rehab Tech In Educ And Employ

This is a one-credit hour course. The contents of the course provide the student with the following information: introduction to different models of rehabilitation technology; understanding of the roles of the members of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation technology team; understanding of the various domains of rehabilitation technology across environments; applications of rehabilitation technology at work, home, school and in the community; understanding of funding sources and legal underpinnings for the provision of rehabilitation technology.

Rural Rehabilitation

This course focuses on the various issues related to counseling service provision in rural areas. The course will also present methods and techniques utilized to meet the specific and unique needs of persons with disabilities living in rural areas.

Ethics For The Counseling Profession

This is a one-credit hour course designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the professional codes of ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors (CRCC) and mental health counselors (American Counseling Association.) A goal of this course is to acquire knowledge about ethical practice in serving persons with disabilities in a changing professional landscape.

Disability And Society

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.

Introduction Of Rehabilitation Counseling And Disability Across The Lifespan

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.

Practicum In Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

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.

Medical And Psychosocial Aspects Of Disabilities: Physical Disability

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.

Medical And Psychosocial Aspects Of Disabilities: Psychiatric Disabilities

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.

Foundations Of Professional Counseling

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.

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