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.

This course includes effective methods and techniques used in determining the academic, intellectual, educational, and aptitude potential of persons with disabilities. Content also includes exploring the ethical practice of assessment and evaluation, test development, reliability, validity, and psychometrics, report writing, use of commercial evaluation systems, and the role of assessment in rehabilitation and clinical mental health counseling programs and agencies.

This course is designed to prepare rehabilitation and clinical mental health counselors in the development of skills for placement of persons with disabilities into a variety of settings including competitive employment, supported employment, and independent living. The course covers placement and career theory and development, pre-placement analysis, job readiness assessment, job development, job analysis, job engineering (work accommodations and modifications), employer attitudes, business rehabilitation, and social security disability.

This course is designed to provide an overview of counseling theories and how they can be applied to a wide variety of circumstances within clinical mental health and rehabilitation counseling context for persons with disabilities. A goal of this course is to acquire knowledge about clinical mental health theoretical orientations and to integrate theory with practice.

This course provide an overview of the techniques of counseling and how they can be applied in a Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling context. The course also allow you to acquire knowledge about theoretical orientations and to develop skill in integrating theory with counseling practice. Emphasis will be on helping students clarity beliefs, values, and personal style, and connecting those to the beliefs and values of the various theories; and identifying commonalities across theories as these relate to clinical rehabilitation and mental health counseling.

This course is designed to prepare rehabilitation and clinical mental health counselors and other human service providers to become knowledgeable of counseling theory and skilled in group and family counseling techniques, with a focus on concerns related to disability and rehabilitation and clinical mental health counseling.

The course is designed to provide the student with clinical learning experiences under faculty supervision in a community-based or state rehabilitation mental health agency. The student is expected to demonstrate knowledge and skills in the application of rehabilitation and mental health counseling methods, techniques, and vocational knowledge in working with persons with disabilities. In addition, the student is required to perform all tasks in accordance to ethical and legal standards in clinical rehabilitation mental health counseling.