CLINICAL REHABILITATION AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING (CRMH)

This course will cover topics germane to the history and philosophy of rehabilitation. Students will obtain an overview of the field, its consumers, and methods of service delivery.

The purpose of this course is to introduce the field of professional counseling, with a concentration on clinical rehabilitation counseling. The course focuses on clinical rehabilitation counseling history, philosophy, values, legislation, policy, and practice (models and methods of service delivery). The course also provides students with foundational knowledge on the counseling profession, the professional identity of the counselor, ethical and legal standards, competencies and functions, and counseling practice in various settings.

An introduction to the traditional theories of individual and family counseling. Emphasis on application of theories to persons with disabilities, ethics, and multicultural awareness.

Functional, psychological, vocational, familial, social, and sexual aspects of medical disabilities. Includes the human body system and medical terminology. Focus on assistive technology and functional capacity.

This course will assist students' development of foundational knowledge of ethical, legal, and professional issues within the counseling profession, with a specific emphasis on clinical mental health counseling and clinical rehabilitation counseling practice. Students will learn to recognize ethical dilemmas and practice resolving them using ethical decision making models.

This course is an overview of the selection, administration, and interpretation of major assessment tools. Emphasis is on persons with mental illness or developmental disabilities.

This course will cover career development and counseling with emphasis on community integration in employment and leisure pursuits. This course will examine the world of work, life career development, career decision- making theories, the process and techniques of career counseling and the interrelationship between career and life balance issues and mental health.

This course will cover career development and counseling with emphasis on community integration in employment and leisure pursuits. This course will examine the world of work, life career development, career decision- making theories, the process and techniques of career counseling and the interrelationship between career and life balance issues and mental health.

A multicultural perspective of developmental theories and counseling through the lifespan will be covered with overall themes of positive development, resiliency, and healthy life transitions of persons with disabilities.

An introduction to diagnosing clients with mental illness and developmental disabilities. Focus is on best practice treatment and the vocational, social, and familial implications of living with a DSM disorder.

Strategies and techniques in developing and implementing groups in counseling. Attention to group counseling with persons with disabilities, specifically those with mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Emphasis on leadership in all aspects of person-centered service coordination to include transdisciplinary and multi-agency effectiveness, knowledge of community organization and resources, service and support options.

Introduces co-occurence of psychiatric conditions, substance abuse, and/or developmental disabilities, examining history including traditional recovery models, contradictory practices, bio-physiological effects, and shift from separate to parallel to integrated treatment approaches.

Research methods, evidence-based practice, and ethical, legal, and cultural issues related to research and evaluation. Covers basic statistics, library research for rehabilitation-related information, proposal development, and grant writing.

Practicum in Clinical Rehabilitation & Mental Health Counseling Provides students the opportunity to apply knowledge and counseling skills in a clinical setting and move to a more advanced level of counseling skill. Includes clinical training in assessing lethality, identifying and reporting abuse, counselor safety, Rehabilitation Counseling ethics, and HIPAA review.

Designed to teach foundational counseling skills that will enable students to begin counseling. Focus on counseling individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities. Includes ethics and multicultural awareness.

Direct experience with clients/patients in either PD or DD settings.

The internship program is a 600 hour (40 hours per week) clinical experience designed to provide students with opportunities to apply theoretical and clinical skills in a clinical rehabilitation counseling setting.

Historical perspective, description, diagnoses, classification, etiology, patterns of functioning, current best practices with focus on RCP service delivery and community support; day-in-the-life component included.

Prepares students for counseling practice with persons with developmental disabilities, focusing on achievement of a participatory, person-centered, independent, productive community life.

Prepare students for counseling practice with persons with psychiatric conditions; covers evidence-based practice and coordination strategies focusing or, support of recovery, achievement of healthy, independent, and productive community life.

Provides a general framework for understanding individuals with disabilities and chronic illnesses in the context of the family and related systems.

Faculty-mentored independent study to pursue specific interests and topics.

Individual work by a student (supervised by faculty) to explore an area of interest in a research paper, program development, or a professional project.

Individual research supervised by a faculty member in a special field of study.