• Rehabilitation counseling is a specific practice of

counseling within the discipline where professionals

work to help people who have emotional and physical
disabilities so that they are able to live more
independently. 1
• It is the link between someone with a disabling
condition and everyday functioning in the world. 2
• The goal of rehabilitation counseling is to help these
individuals overcome these barriers, assessing abilities
and needs, setting goals, and helping them overcome
physical, social, and emotional obstacles. 2
1 https://www.bestcounselingdegrees.net/faq/what-is-rehabilitation-counseling/
2 https://www.allpsychologycareers.com/topics/rehabilitation-counseling.html
• Involves a wide range of treatments, from evaluation, to in-
hospital therapy, out-patient treatment, and establishing
processes and aids for living independently. 2

Interview Review and Referral Assessment Goal Setting

• Disabled Evaluation • Other health • Capabilities: • Physical
Individual • Medical and/or care provider Teachers, • Social
• Family School, employers, etc.. • Psychological
Records, etc… • Setting: In-
• Psychologist, hospital, Out-
Physicians, patient
etc…

2 https://www.allpsychologycareers.com/topics/rehabilitation-counseling.html
• Substance abuse counseling is a
combination of treatment and
support to help people break free
from drug or alcohol addiction

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• History of mental illness
• Peer pressure or the belief that drug abuse is
not a bad thing
• Cultural expectations or a desire to fit in
• Stress, including stress from relationships,
finances, medical illness, work, school, and
other stressors
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• See the problem and become motivated to
change
• Change his or her behavior
• Repair damaged relationships with family and
friends
• Build new friendships with people who don't
use alcohol or drugs
• Create a recovery lifestyle
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Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral therapies help patients
understand the causes of high-risk
behavior and develop tools for avoiding
or coping with high-risk situations.

https://www.drugrehab.com/treatment/types-of-therapy/
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- focuses on learning to reduce problematic behavior
associated with substance abuse. A key theme in CBT
is anticipating risky situations and applying coping
strategies, such as avoidance or self-control, to prevent
relapse.
- Effectively treats addiction on: Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine,
Methamphetamine, Nicotine

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• Motivational Therapies
–The therapies help patients find internal
motivation to begin or continue treatment.
They often provide incentives
for maintaining sobriety and are used in
combination with behavioral therapies.

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Motivational Enhancement Therapy
– It reduces patients’ doubts or uncertainties about
engaging in treatment or stopping drug use. The
goal is to encourage change as opposed to
teaching patients how to change.
– Effectively treats addiction on: Alcohol,
Marijuana, Nicotine.

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Contingency Management and Motivational
Incentive
- Reinforce positive behavior with tangible rewards.
The therapies augment other forms of therapy to
increase abstinence during counseling.
- Effectively treats addiction on: Alcohol, Cocaine,
Methamphetamine, Marijuana, Nicotine,
Prescription Stimulants
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Community Reinforcement
– The therapy involves motivational incentives in
the form of familial, social and recreational
rewards in addition to vouchers to motivate
abstinence from substance abuse.
– Effectively treats addiction on: Alcohol,
Cocaine,Opiods

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12-Step Facilitation Therapy
- Through the 12 Steps, people learn how to cope with
addiction, avoid triggers and live sober lives.
- Most popular programs are: Alcoholics Anonymous
(AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA)

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1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or
others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood
God, praying only for the knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other
addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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 • Alternative & Holistic Therapies
–Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness
–Animal Therapy
–Music Therapy
–Art Therapy

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Source: https://youtu.be/IrfHGLX0cnk