RHB4121EN - Rehabilitation Counseling Theory and Practice I

Course description

This course will offer an advanced introduction to evidenced based therapies and techniques. Students will review and research various theories and present them online to their classmates in a presentation/paper format. This course will only focus on half of the theories in Rehabilitation Counseling and encompass both individual and group techniques.

How this course benefits students

This course will relate to students who want to serve in the capacity of assisting clients in need of rehabilitation services and therapy in various populations on an advanced level

Why this course is important

In today’s world, we are seeing an increase in injury, crime, and addictions among other stressors. This course is important to the University as it will assist students in learning practices and procedures as well as state and federal laws and regulations needed to provide proper care to clients in need with rehabilitation.

Credit hours
3 hours
Subject area
Rehabilitation Counseling
Educational level
Bachelor
Learning type
Instructional
Prerequisites
None
Upcoming terms
Pending
* Schedule subject to change. Please contact the Registrar's office with schedule questions.

How this course relates to missional core values

Biblically based

In this course, students will be focusing on John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you…”

Missionally driven

In Rehabilitation Counseling Theories and Practice, students will learn the importance to spread witness to people who need guidance, rehabilitation and support through God.

Contextually informed

Throughout the Bible we are told to spread the word of Jesus as well as love our neighbors. Within our own communities, people are suffering from injuries to addictions to criminal charges. Through this course, future counselors will learn and define rehabilitation as well as learn evidenced based theories to better serve their clients.

Interculturally focused

In this course, students will learn how mental illness influences those from diverse populations as well as how to treat them including their cultural beliefs.

Practically minded

This course will emphasis the importance of ministry to those client’s in need of treatment by using knowledge gained from the course to assess and deliver resources to those in need by means of the Bible for knowledge in ministry.

Experientially transformed

Through the course, students will learn state and federal laws and requirements and be able to relate these in the field. Students will also learn evidence based theories to apply to their treatment techniques.