Rehabilitation Counselor Roles and Functions and Sources of Role Strain

1 June 1980

journal article
Published by Springer Publishing Company in Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling

Vol. 11 (2) , 57-69
https://doi.org/10.1891/0047-2220.11.2.57

Abstract

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.

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