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COURSE SYLLABUS: Legal & Ethical Aspects of Rehabilitation

Course Title: Department: Instructor:

RS550 - Legal & Ethical Aspects of Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Services and Administration Jay Strike Carlin, PsyD, JD Contact - Vita

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

This course provides a foundation for services and decision-making through examination of client entitlements, eligibility, advocacy and protections. Health care law, public policy, ethics and confidentiality are discussed in this course. The obligations and impact of mandated reporting are also explored. This graduate level course will further examine the psychosocial issues that are ever present when performing rehabilitation work and additionally explore the historical and legislative evolution of this field.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: Online Bookstore

The textbook utilized for this class is Counseling in the Rehabilitation Process, Community Services for Mental and Physical Disabilities, Grady, G., Martin, E., & Hardy, R. Charles C. Thomas Company, Springfield, IL, Second Edition, 1999.
ISBN #: 0398069697

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

There will be two examinations given in this course, one a Midterm

Examination given on Week Four and the other a Final Examination given on Week Eight. Each of the examinations will be in an essay format and will cover the materials that have been presented in the text. Specifically the Midterm Examination will cover materials presented in the text in Chapters One through Chapter Eight. The Final Examination will cover the materials presented in Chapters Nine through Chapter Seventeen of the text. It should be noted that the final examination in this course is not a comprehensive examination and will only cover the materials contained in Chapters Nine through Chapter Seventeen. The student must complete each examination no later than the last day of the week on Week Four and Week Eight respectively. The student must notify the instructor via email on Week Four and also on Week Eight that they are ready to sit for examinations and then permission will be granted to gain access to the respective examinations.

Additionally the course will contain four written assignments, which will test students knowledge of each section of the text and also provide excellent study materials for the examinations. It is further hoped that by completing the written assignments that the student will become familiar with the types of questions that will be presented in each examination.

COURSE SCHEDULE:

Week One:

• Chapter One – Foundations of the Rehabilitation Process
• Chapter Two – Historical Antecedents of the Rehabilitation Enterprise in America - A Rehabilitation Movement
• Chapter Three – The Development of the Rehabilitation Enterprise in America: An early history of the rehabilitation movement in the United States.

• Written Assignment Number One – Covering Chapters One, Two, and Three

Week Two:

• Chapter Four – The Development of the Rehabilitation Enterprise in America: A recent history of the rehabilitation movement in the United States.
• Chapter Five – Educational and Professional Organizational Development of the Rehabilitation Counseling Discipline
• Chapter Six – The Rehabilitation Process: A Perspective for the Rehabilitation Counselor

• Written Assignment Number Two – Covering Chapters Four, Five and Six

Week Three:

• Chapter Seven – Occupational Analysis, Job Development, and Placement Considerations for Rehabilitation Counselors
• Chapter Eight – Ethical Considerations in Rehabilitation Counseling: A perspective for the counselor and agency.

• No written assignment – study for the Midterm

Week Four:

• Midterm Examination

Week Five:

• Chapter Nine – A Psychodynamic Approach to Acceptance and Adjustment to Disability.
• Chapter Ten – A Personal Experience of Acceptance and Adjustment to Disability
• Chapter Eleven – An Alderian Approach to Acceptance and Adjustment to Disability.

• Written Assignment Number Three – Covering Chapters Nine, Ten and Eleven.

Week Six:

• Chapter Twelve – Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT): A Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Approach to Acceptance and Adjustment to Disability
• Chapter Thirteen – Gestalt, Hypnosis and Pain Management in Cancer Treatment: A Therapeutic Application of Acceptance and Adjustment to Disability.
• Chapter Fourteen – An Integrative Counseling and Psychosocial Approach to Acceptance and Adjustment to Disability.

• Written Assignment Number Four – Covering Chapters Twelve, Thirteen, and Fourteen.

Week Seven:

• Chapter Fifteen: Rehabilitation Counseling Credentialing as Professional Counseling Specialty.
• Chapter Sixteen: Substance Abuse Disorders in Rehabilitation.
• Chapter Seventeen: An International and Multicultural Perspective on Disability and Rehabilitation.

• No Written Assignment – Study for Final Examination

Week Eight:

• Final Examination

Grading Procedure:

Midterm Exam Final Exam Five written assignments

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40% of final grade 40% of final grade 20% of final grade

Grades:

90% - 100% 80% - 90% 70% - 80% 60% - 70% Below 60%

A B C D F

Written Assignments:

Week One:

• In your text, Bitter (1970) identified three principles, which form a philosophical base for rehabilitation practice. Please describe each of these principles and how they apply to the practice of rehabilitation.

Week Two:

• Please name and describe three of the seven characteristics of major life activities that are substantially limited by a disability.

Week Five

• Please describe the typical process that each rehabilitation counselor would enter into with his or her clients.

Week Six:

• Please describe what the term rationalization means and how does it affect a disability?