Counseling in the Rehabilitation Process: Community Services for Mental and Physical Disabilities

Provides an introduction and overview to the field of rehabilitation counseling and services, for use in a graduate introductory rehabilitation or community counseling course. Part I describes basic foundations of the rehabilitation process, history of the field, and educational and professional development of the field. Part II details the rehabilitation process and Part III traces counseling and psychosocial aspects of disability from theoretical and practical points of view. Part IV discusses special topics in rehabilitation, such as credentialing, substance use, and multicultural issues. The editor is professor emeritus in the department of rehabilitation counseling in the school of allied health professions at the Medical College of Virginia of the Virginia Commonwealth University. Paper edition (unseen), $44.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)