CRCC eUNIVERSITY Additional Courses

Developing a Labor Market Survey

1 CE CLOCK HOUR
$25 LIST PRICE | $15 SAVINGS PLAN MEMBER PRICE

Course Description

This course introduces, defines, and provides a model for rehabilitation counselors and vocational evaluators can use when conducting a labor market survey. Resources will include a sample report and data collection form.

Course Instructors

Dominique Dial, CRC

Multicultural Counseling Competency: Reasons We Have Difficulty with Application

8 CE CLOCK HOURS
$200 LIST PRICE | $120 SAVINGS PLAN MEMBER PRICE

Course Objective

The primary focus of this course is counselor self-awareness. In self-awareness, we recognize our own attitudes and beliefs, and we understand how these attitudes and beliefs influence our thinking and interactions with others. Explore your own cultural self-awareness by analyzing case studies featuring people who are part of underrepresented groups. Refine your skill of incorporating data into decision-making and action, as you increase your awareness of attitudes and beliefs and develop knowledge about underrepresented individuals. The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies are critical when working with people with disabilities who are also part of underrepresented groups.

Course Description

People with disabilities have similar experiences related to how they are treated at work, where they live, and where they seek services. Yet, multicultural topics are generally difficult to discuss. This course is designed to use the principles of multicultural counseling competency to help you reduce discrimination when working with clients. Improve your counseling skills and knowledge and increase the resources you use when working with individuals with disabilities.

Course Instructors

Keith B. Wilson, PhD, CRC
Yolanda V. Edwards, PhD, CRC
Si-Yi Chao, PhD, CRC

Motivational Interviewing and Individual Placement and Support Tools

2 CE CLOCK HOURS
$50 LIST PRICE | $30 SAVINGS PLAN MEMBER PRICE

Course Objective

Provide strategies for rehabilitation counselors to assist individuals with ambivalence about working, to either obtain or sustain jobs, specifically:

• Understand essential components of individual placement and support (IPS) and motivational interviewing;
• Understand and utilize the Intervention Matching Framework when initially conceptualizing an employment case;
• Complete and apply the Stages of Change Interview for Seeking Competitive Employment;
• Understand and complete the tool, Ups and Downs for Getting a Job, and the Ready, Able, Willing, and Resource Ruler;
• Understand and complete the Employment Questionnaire, a tool to help an individual identify reasons for pursuing employment;
• Understand and complete the Employment Change Worksheet, which helps an individual identify the changes needed to pursue employment;
• Complete the Job Plan with a virtual client, which helps an individual list the steps needed to pursue and obtain employment; and
• Comprehend how to better apply these tools.

Course Description

IPS provides effective services for individuals determined to locate employment; however, it lacks components to intervene with individuals demonstrating ambivalence about finding and continuing work after they start IPS. To address employment ambivalence, a service package including IPS and MI (Motivational Interviewing) tools has been created. Six user-friendly tools incorporating IPS and MI have been created for rehabilitation counselors engaged in employment services for individuals with severe mental illness. Components of this course are based on: Larson, J.E. (2008). User-friendly motivational interviewing and evidence-based supported employment tools for practitioners. Journal of Rehabilitation, 74(4), 18-30.

Course Instructor

Jonathon E. Larson, EdD, CRC, LCPC

Vocational Evaluation: What Do You Want to Know?

3 CE CLOCK HOURS
$75 LIST PRICE | $45 SAVINGS PLAN MEMBER PRICE

Course Objective

Facilitate improved communication between rehabilitation counselors and vocational evaluators by focusing on how referral questions are asked and answered.

Course Description

Rehabilitation counselors and vocational evaluators are key members of a consumer’s rehabilitation team. When these professionals work in tandem with the consumer, the process of rehabilitation is effective and efficient.

Through case studies presented, you will enhance your ability to:

• Classify referral questions by service-related topics and types;
• Compose referral questions to obtain specific information for case planning (e.g., queries unique to a consumer’s work situation); and
• Analyze answers as they relate to responsiveness, specificity and usability, and the satisfaction of the rehabilitation counselor, consumer, and evaluator.

Course Instructor

Steven R. Sligar, EdD, CVE, PVE

Starting a Private Practice

2 CE CLOCK HOURS
$50 LIST PRICE | $30 SAVINGS PLAN MEMBER PRICE

Course Description

If you are considering starting a private practice, this course is for you. You’ll consider the actionable steps needed to establish a private practice. You’ll also learn how to identify your ideal client and market your service to them effectively and ethically. The essential decisions and steps that you must take as a new business owner will also be outlined, ensuring that you build a fiscally sound and sustainable practice. Once you complete this course, you’ll earn 2 CRCC pre-approved CE clock hours in professional development.