A national random sample of (a) 160 rehabilitation counselors; (b) 83 rehabilitation managers, administrators, and supervisors; and, (c) 23 rehabilitation educators, responded to three scales on each of the 40 items on the Abbreviated Rehabilitation Counselor Task Inventory. Data were analyzed on each item as well as by 11 Job Task Categories: (a) Placement; (b) Affective Counseling; (c) Group Procedures; (d) Vocational Counseling; (e) Medical Referral; (f) Eligibility-Case Finding; (g) Test Administration; (h) Test Interpretation; (i) Case Services Coordination; (j) Intervention with Client's Family; and, (k) Miscellaneous. Results and their implications were reported for: (l) rehabilitation counselor roles and functions; (2) rehabilitation counselor time sufficiency and desire for role and function change; (3) sources of role strain; (4) indices of rehabilitation counselor burnout; and, (5) changes in rehabilitation counselor role and functions since the mid 196Os.

Using documentation from professional literature, this article reviews and examines the professionalization, deprofessionalization, and reprofessionalization of rehabilitation counseling according to selected descriptors of professionalism. Recommendations designed to facilitate the continuation of rehabilitation counseling's professional development are offered.

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This article reviews the literature pertinent to prepracticum laboratory experiences in counselor education and describes the elements and the evaluation of one such program.

This manuscript: (a) briefly reviews critical, historical antecedents of the continuing developments and refinements of ethical standards for the professional practice of rehabilitation counseling; (b) demonstrates how ethical standards reflect the continuing, changing developments in American society, rehabilitation service delivery, and the actual practice of rehabilitation counseling; and (c) substantiates the veracity and validity of its assertion that overall, the development of ethical standards for the professional practice of rehabilitation counseling basically has constituted reaction-to-crisis, facade, and less-than-earnest activities. Recommendations for rehabilitation counseling's future initiatives and activities are offered.