Course Descriptions

REH 5301 - Foundations of Rehabilitation Counseling

The purpose of this course is to provide graduate students with the following: 1. Foundational knowledge of the history and philosophy of rehabilitation with regards to legislation affecting individuals with disabilities; 2. Organizational structure of the vocational rehabilitation systems that is inclusive of public, private, for-profit, and not-for-profit service delivery settings; 3. Laws and ethical standards governing the profession of rehabilitation counseling; 4. Social issues as they relate to people with disabilities in the decision-making process; and 5. Consumer empowerment that is relevant to choice and responsibility during the rehabilitation process.

REH 5302 - Theories and Techniques of Counseling

Credits: 3 hrs

This course will address individual, group, and family counseling theories and practices with the inclusion of diversity issues (e.g. multicultural, disability, and gender). Behavior, personality, and human growth will be included to enhance the different theoretical concepts.

REH 5303 - Group Counseling

The course will emphasize counseling concepts within a group setting, exploring the involvement of family members, significant others, and advocates in the rehabilitation process. Course delivery will provide an opportunity to explore diverse settings as well as environmental and attitudinal barriers to individuals with disabilities.

REH 5304 - Vocational Assessment

REH 5306 - Medical Aspects of Disabilities in Rehabilitation Counseling

This course is designed to address basic medical terminology, functional capacities of disabilities, appropriate intervention resources (e.g., assistive technology and medications), vocational implications, and the psychosocial aspects of disability as it relates to personal, social, and cultural dynamics.

REH 5308 - Practicum

Students will complete a minimum of one hundred (100) clock hours of supervised experience in the provision of rehabilitation services, forty (40) hours of which are focused on direct service provision. In addition to engaging in professional, off-campus settings, students will participate in classroom experiences such as mock counseling sessions. The practicum experience provides a supervised arena for practicing counseling skills. Prerequisite(s): REH 5301, REH 5302

REH 5309 - Ethics in Rehabilitation Counseling

Credits: 3 hrs

This course is for beginning counselors who need to learn basic ethical principles and explore the legal issues which govern counseling. Students should plan on spending approximately ten (10) total hours “on-line” during the course. There are five (5) required modules in this course that include online readings and interactions with the instructor and other students.

REH 5310 - Culture & Disability

This course addresses the following purposes: (a) expand the student awareness of culture, ethnicity, race, and disability, (b) begin developing students’ ability to identify, respond to, and intervene on interpersonal and psychological phenomena involving culture, ethnicity, race and disability.

REH 5311 - Introduction to Public Vocational Rehabilitation

REH 5312 - Rural Rehab in Public Sector

Credits: 3 hrs

This course will focus on impact of persons living in rural communities with medical, housing, transportation and educational needs and the larger impact it has on persons with disabilities. Extensive review of the rehabilitation needs to cultural, psychological, social, and vocational implications of living in a rural community and the challenge for a rehabilitation counselor.

REH 5313 - Transition from School to Work

The course emphasizes the basic principles of helping youth with disabilities transition from school to work. The course will apply knowledge of youth and family development as well as introduce research findings and translate into appropriate rehabilitation counseling techniques. Students will explore legal and ethical requirements specific to youth with disabilities in school and the benefits of and strategies to promote interagency collaboration to promote successful outcomes.

REH 5314 - Counseling Persons/Deaf/Hear

The course will focus on the application of basic principles underlying all forms of therapeutic interaction to professional counseling practices with individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, psychological, social and vocational implications of deafness, extensive review of the rehabilitation service system’s response to the unique needs of people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Prerequisite(s): Basic sign language skills and/or consent of the department

REH 5315 - Advanced Vocational Evaluation

This course will provide students an opportunity to administer, modify, score, and interpret various vocational evaluation instruments, including work sampling systems and simulated work assessments. Behavioral observation and recording techniques for real work evaluation will also be covered, as well as community based assessment strategies. Prerequisite(s): REH 5304 or permission of the instructor

REH 5316 - Special Topics in Rehab Counseling

This course is designed to allow undergraduate and graduate students to investigate special topics in rehabilitation counseling that address their special issues within rehabilitation field for the development of relevant knowledge and skills. The course will have variable credit that can range from 1-3 credit hours.

REH 5318 - Helping Relationships & Techniques in Counseling

This course provides understanding of the counseling and consultation process as it relates to practice in rehabilitation settings. This course provides a system for planning the session and analyzing the counselor’s behavior.  It presents skills, concepts, and methods designed to help the student develop concrete competencies and then examine their own counseling and therapy skills.  The goal of this course is to provide an opportunity for the student to gain usable and useful skills central to the counseling process.

REH 5325 - Career Decision-Making in Rural Settings

This course explores classic and contemporary theories of career development, sources of educational and occupational information, and the impact of the global economy on career and lifestyle trends.  Special emphasis on the application of theory to practice, particularly career services appropriate in rural settings and the career/life development needs of diverse populations, including individuals with disabilities.  

REH 6301 - Vocational Placement

This course examines theoretical concepts of vocational choices, labor market trends, job development, job placement, employer contacts, disability legislation, supported employment, post-employment through follow-up services, job coaching, and natural supports.

REH 6302 - Vocational Rehabilitation Services Planning

This course examines case findings, service coordination, and involvement of the multidisciplinary approach for the provision of consumer services. Emphasis is placed on planning for the provision of employment, independent living services, and vocational rehabilitation planning. Technology for caseload management and the impact of managed care on service provision are addressed.

REH 6304 - Human Growth and Development

This course pertains to developmental theories across the life span, as well as transition issues related to family, school, culture, employment, aging, and disability. Social and learning needs are incorporated in discussions of developmental theories. Rehabilitation ethics and legal issues are emphasized.

REH 6306 - Research & Program Evaluation Methods

This course provides an introduction to major principles, concepts, and practices in research and basic statistics as it relates to rehabilitation research. Students will develop and understanding research methods, statistical analysis, needs assessment, and program evaluation to inform evidence-based practice in rehabilitation counseling and related settings. Prerequisite(s): None

REH 6307 - Psychosocial & Cultural Diversity Issues

REH 6308 - Cultural Diversity Issues in Rehabilitation Counseling & Health Care

REH 6310 - Project/Rehabilitation Counseling

Students have the option of completing a thesis or project. The project encompasses research projects and clinical case studies, OR completion of the national CRC exam. Most of the project is completed independently, per Rehabilitation Program and Graduate School specifications for formatting and completion deadlines. Research projects or clinical case studies are written in American Psychological Association 5th Edition format. Completion of the project may exceed the two years of required coursework for the MRC degree.  Prerequisite(s): REH 6306

REH 6311 - Thesis/Rehabilitation Counseling

Students have the option of completing a thesis or project. Students have the option of completing a project or a thesis on a rehabilitation or rehabilitation-related topic. The thesis includes an introduction, literature review, method, results, and discussion section. Most of the thesis is completed independently, per Rehabilitation Program and Graduate School specifications for formatting and completion deadlines. Completion of the project may exceed the two years of required coursework for the MRC degree.  Prerequisite(s): REH 6306

REH 6312 - Job Placement in Transition

This course combines classroom instruction, library research and field experiences to provide students with information and skills for transition placement, job analysis, job-seeking skills training, job development, determination of job readiness, and job reengineering. The combination of the three types of learning experiences is designed to give students comprehensive exposure to the major facets of vocational placement.

REH 6313 - Vocational Evaluation/Transition

This course outlines the selection, administration, and interpretation of various psychological, achievement, adaptive behavior, and interest measurement instruments used with transition population. Job placement, job analysis, and case management issues, as well as demonstration and practice are included.  Prerequisite(s): REH 5304 Vocational Assessment or similar graduate level course

REH 6314 - Family Collaboration/Intervention

This is a field-based course devoted to the study of the major principles upon which effective home, school-community relations are based. Students will learn how to identify and plan appropriate interventions for students with disabilities and provide information, skills, and strategies to work with diverse families. The course emphasizes the ways in which families access agencies whose activities may have a beneficial effect upon students as well as the provision of family services through community agencies. Emphasis is placed on working with culturally and linguistically diverse students and their families.

REH 6315 - Voc Evaluation/Deaf & Hard/Hearing

This course outlines the selection, administration, and interpretation of various psychological, achievement, adaptive behavior, and interest measurement instruments used with persons who are deaf, hearing impaired, and persons with other disabilities. Job placement, job analysis, and case management issues, as well as demonstration and practice are included. Prerequisite(s): REH 5304 Vocational Assessment or similar graduate level course.

REH 6316 - Psychosocial Aspects of Deafness

This course addresses the educational, legal, philosophical, and political influences that affect the lives of people who are deaf, deaf-blind, hard-of-hearing, and late-deafened. The impact of pre-lingual and post-lingual deafness of an individual’s social and psychological functioning will also be discussed.

REH 6317 - Aural Rehabilitation

The course will focus on the understanding of the medical and disabling aspects of hearing loss, surgical treatments such as cochlear implant, and assistive devices. The course will allow students to learn about the various forms of rehabilitation services and supportive assistance for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.

REH 6601 - Internship in Rehabilitation Counseling

Students will complete a minimum of six hundred (600) clock hours of internship at a professional, off- campus setting, two hundred forty (240) hours of which will constitute direct service provision. Students will observe all aspects of rehabilitation service delivery, including the policies and procedures that govern the internship site, in accordance with the Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) Code of Ethics, professional and faculty mentors, and state/federal reporting requirements. Prerequisite(s): REH 5301, REH 5302, REH 5303, REH 5304, REH 5306, REH 5308, REH 5309, REH 6301, REH 6302, REH 6304, REH 6306

REH 6901 - Internship in Rehabilitation Counseling

Students will be involved in 600 clock hours of internship experience in a rehabilitation setting. The experience focuses on observation of all aspects of rehabilitation counseling delivery, the policies and procedures that govern the agency’s service delivery in accordance to the rehabilitation counselor (code of ethics) and other agency personnel, reporting requirements and other requirements of accountability.  Prerequisite(s): REH 5301, 5302, 5303, 5304, 5306, 5308, 5309, 6301, 6302, 6304, 6306, 6307, and EDU 6305

REH 7130 - Extension of Project/ Thesis in Rehabilitation Counseling

Credits: 1-3 hrs

Students in graduate degree programs are required to maintain continuous registration for thesis or project until the work is completed. Students will register for this course, if needed, to complete their graduate project or thesis work.