CORE 471: Community Rehabilitation Practice for Children with Special Needs and Their Families or
CORE 473: Community Practice in Career Development and Disability or
CORE 475: Community Rehabilitation Practice and the Aging Process
CORE 569: Individual Clinical Practice (Emotional Disturbance Related to Disability)
CORE 581: Professional Practice Issues and Professional Ethics in Community Rehabilitation
CORE 589.05: Becoming an Ally: New Approaches to Case Management

CORE 471

Community Rehabilitation Practice for Children with Special Needs and Their Families

Cognitive, social and emotional development of children with disabilities in the context of their families, schools and communities.

• Interdisciplinary focus to children's assessments.
• Processes of identification. Family support, and working relationships.
• Sensory, language/communication, cognition and motor development.
• Family and community issues.
• Cultural and international perspectives.
• Developmental theories, integration of theory, research and practice.
• Current research issues (i.e., Attention Disorder/Hyperactive Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disability.

• With a family, students will demonstrate knowledge of assessments of social, cognitive, language and communication, sensorimotor functioning and development, and play-based treatment recommendations.
• Through a critical research paper and class presentation students will demonstrate understanding of children with special needs and the critical issues involved in current research.
• Through a formal examination students will demonstrate awareness of assessment frameworks.

CORE 473

Community Practice in Career Development and Disability

Career and work transition issues for persons encountering adult onset disabilities. Course assumes prior knowledge in assessment and interventions. Course provides foundation for case management.

• Career development theories in practice.
• Social, psychological and cultural factors of adult onset disability (e.g.: grief and loss, impact on family).
• Occupational information (e.g., Labor Market Survey, DOT/NOC/CCDO).
• Return to work programs (e.g., GRT, Transitional, Work Conditioning, Worksite Evaluations).

• Through completing a vocational rehabilitation plan with an adult with an adult onset disability, students will assess, identify the vocational rehabilitation process and five return to work program recommendations.
• Through a critical research paper students will demonstrate their knowledge of a particular adult onset disability and the career implications.
• Through an examination students will demonstrate their knowledge of career development theories, social, psychological, and cultural factors of various adult onset disabilities and the vocational rehabilitation process.

CORE 475

Community Rehabilitation Practice and the Aging Process

Theoretical models, practice frameworks and current research issues related to supporting older persons with disabilities in their communities.

• Physical, social and psychological features of aging with a disability.
• Mental health issues in aging.
• Informal supports (i.e. family caregiving) and formal supports (i.e. long-term care, outreach).
• Ethical issues and decision-making for seniors.
• Relevant theories (social support theory, systems theory).
• Social policy issues related to aging and disability.

• Through working with a senior, students will translate the theory of aging with a disability into practice and understand the experience of aging with a disability from a variety of perspectives.
• Through a critical research paper and class presentation students will demonstrate knowledge of disability and the aging process, identify critical issues and suggest areas for future knowledge building.
• Through an examination students demonstrate an awareness of the field.

CORE 569

Individual Clinical Practice (Emotional Disturbance Related to Disability)

A person-in-environment centered approach to emotional/behavioral concerns for persons with disabilities. This course replaces psychosocial theory.

• Social/cultural context of the difficulties faced by people with disabilities.
• Presenting clinical issues (e.g., post traumatic stress disorders, mood disorders, maladaptive social behaviors, communication difficulties) encountered in community rehabilitation practice and associated with disabling conditions.
• Emancipatory/empowerment models in clinical practice.
• Strategies for safeguarding people with disabilities.

• Demonstrates knowledge of current and emerging clinical practice.
Explores issues or practices related to client centered practice.
Explores an aspect of clinical practice research through a research paper.

CORE 581

Professional Practice Issues and Professional Ethics in Community Rehabilitation

Ethical decision making issues and practices for community rehabilitation service providers, researchers, interdisciplinary teams, agencies, and policy developers using case study format.

• Professionalization as a process.
• Relevant codes of ethics and ethical decision making models for community based service.
• Direct service ethical issues (e.g., confidentiality, informed consent, respect for vulnerable populations, professional boundaries).
• The relationship of competency and ethics.
• Applying ethical principles to organizations and policy development.
• Concepts of social responsibility and social justice.

• Through group analysis of vignettes, identifies and resolves ethical dilemmas, evaluate rules and policies against the criteria of ethical principles.
• Through analysis of personal practice, gains awareness of personal beliefs and characteristics that influence professional behavior.
• Through exam demonstrates awareness of professional ethical standards.

CORE 209: Disability in Theory and Everyday Life
CORE 425: New Psychologies of Disability
CORE 541: Special Topics in International Disability Research
CORE 583: Community Development
CORE 573: Disability and the Law
CORE 589.04: Senior Project in Community Rehabilitation

Sample of Option Courses:
CORE 305.02: Empowerment and Consumer Advocacy
CORE 305.03: Social Construction of Disability
CORE 591.01: Consumer Centered Leadership in Community Rehabilitation Services
CORE 593.03: Social Role Valorization

CORE 209

Disability Across the Life Span

Examination of disabling conditions through a life span perspective.

• Models of development theory as it relates to developmental, and later, on-set disability (i.e., social psychosocial, behaviorism, cognitive development, ethnological, etc.)
• Current service approaches and exemplary practice (birth, preschool, school, career development, adult and senior services).
• Current theory and research approaches related to community rehabilitation and disability studies across the life span (i.e., attachment theory, theories of human development, etc.).

• Through interviews and research with service providers students will demonstrate understanding of service provision issues within life span perspective including theory, research and practice.
• Through interviews with families students will demonstrate understanding of family issues throughout the life span including theory, research and practice.
• Through a final exam on course materials, class lectures and discussions students will show understanding of theories of human development as they relate to disability across life span.

CORE 425

New Psychologies of Disability

Social construction and narrative as foundations for interdisciplinary study, community practice and personal empowerment.

• Personal construction of meaning related to disability and impairment.
• Interdisciplinary definitions and practices related to story, roles, scripts, metaphor, narrative, discourse and myth.
• Analysis of power and resources in social policy and inclusive practices.

• Through narrative analysis of an autobiography, applies narrative and constructivist theory to practice.
• Through a formal paper on social construction of disabling condition, health issue or practice, demonstrates knowledge of social problems.

CORE 541

Special Topics in International Disability Research and Policy

Selected topics in disability research and policy whereby the student leans to understand and compare the perspective as developed in two or more countries.

• Specific topics to be determined on a course-by-course basis.
• Courses will involve the study of research and/or policy issues as examined, with the intent of gaining a comparative understanding of different perspectives and approaches.

• Through project work with students from other countries, students develop understanding of specific perspectives in countries other than Canada, and a deeper appreciation of Canadian perspectives.
• Ability to analyse disability research and/or policy issues from historical, cultural, and political perspectives.

CORE 583

Community Development in Community Rehabilitation

A study of practice issues for professionals working in community development and interdisciplinary teams.

• Principles and values of community action and development.
• New paradigms in community development.
• Approaches to community development.
• Community support paradigm.

• Incorporates the values of community action in class assignments.
• Organizes and participates in skill building through project teams.
• Prepares community development proposal in collaboration with community members.

CORE 589.05

Becoming an Ally: New approaches to Case Management

Mentored practicum in case planning and management that values partnership with clients and other stakeholders.

• Case management models.
• Historical, cultural, and personal interpretation of such terms as: client-driven, client-centered, choice, risk, least intrusive, case and management.
• Cooperation and collaboration in life planning and methods for handling differences of opinion.

• Facilitates a client-centered client case conference (presents video of conference and documents).
• With mentored support in on e transition domain (e.g. mental health, school to work, prepares, implements and monitors a service or support plan within confines of funding and service guidelines.

CORE 573

Disability and the Law

Foundations of Canadian legal principles and practice as they affect community rehabilitation. An internet/on-campus course utilizing briefs based on case law. Students use local law and Internet resources to clarify and communicate issues.

• Constitutional law, the role of the Charter.
• Criminal justice (state vs. the individual), right and responsibilities of the victim, the accused and the non-legal professional in criminal justice processes.
• Civil law (the individual vs. individuals or groups), personal injury, liability and tort.

• Through online exam questions demonstrates knowledge of institutional law, criminal law and civil law related to working with lawyers, safeguards in practice, procedures, expert testimony and legal requirements.
• Using televised case studies and rulings of actual cases prepares 4-6 page law briefs in topics such as documentation for legal or course work, cost of care and dispute resolution.

CORE 589.04

Senior Project in Community Rehabilitation

A participatory workshop will support theoretical analysis and practical research of trends in policy and practice in community rehabilitation and disability studies. The course is taught in seminar form and the instructor supervises student groups or individual students in their research process.

• Critical thinking skills
• Trend analysis
• Qualitative research as applied in community settings.
• Stages and alternatives of research design and presentation.
• Traditions of Research Dissemination.

• Conducts partnered research.
• Analyzes and discusses results.
• Prepares findings for distribution to stakeholders (academic audience, participants, sponsor, etc.).
• Provides short reflective response to the implications of research and practice in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies.

CORE 305.02: Disability Studies & Consumer Advocacy
Introduction to Disability Studies as a field of inquiry and an area of advocacy and political activity wherein disability is seen as a construct of modernity and lived reality (narrative constructs, critical theory, feminism and word views).

CORE 305.03: Construction of Disability: Disability Studies II
Social theory related to historical, cultural, medical, economic and political perspectives of disability. On-line course hosted by three Canadian Disability Activists.

CORE 591.01: Consumer Centered Leadership in Community Rehabilitation Services
This course will examine the ways in which both informal and formal leaders can use their influence to help make service "consumer centered" and better reflect the priorities and needs of those being served. This will be accomplished by an examination of the various elements that contribute to an improvement in the lines of those served.

CORE 593.03: Social Role Valorization: A Framework for Practice in Rehabilitation

CORE 415: Rehabilitation Management
CORE 589.01: Development of Services and Programs
CORE 589.02: Supervision in Community Practice

Students take two additional courses in business and management.

CORE 415

Rehabilitation Management

Management and leadership issues within the context of private, non-profit and public community based organizations.

• Motivational and management theories.
• Organizational structures and impact on service delivery.
• Current issues in management.
• Compensation systems and impact on employee job performance and satisfaction.

• Conduct an organizational analysis of a rehabilitation organization/ agency.
• Reviews current and emerging management issues and trends through the analysis of management journal articles/ management best seller books.
• As part of a team, analyzes a case study to identify, apply theory and research to motivating employees, management approaches and leadership skills.

CORE 589.01

Development of Services and Programs

Students will contract with a human service organization for 130 hours to complete a project in the area of program or service development (e.g. needs analysis, developing funding proposals, program evaluation). In the seminars, students will be supported in the completion of agency-based program development. Students will present on a topic relating to their contract. Topics will be selected on the basis of student practicums.

• Consultation with agency staff.
• Program evaluation
• Needs assessment
• Registration and incorporation.
• Funding bases and securement.
• Developing funding proposals.

• Through an evaluated learning contract students will establish, manage and complete goals and objectives related to an agency need.
• Through professional practice students will demonstrate knowledge of administrative procedures in a human service agency.
• Through a contracted, written project and presentation students will demonstrate an awareness of funding options, team skills and public speaking.

CORE 589.02

Supervision in Community Practice

Topics in leadership, management styles, conflict resolution, clinical supervision and performance appraisal. Students supervise agency staff, volunteers or students.

• Transition from line to supervisory positions.
• Planning and time management of staff supervision responsibilities.
• Appraisal alternatives
• Dealing with change.
• Employee relations and communications.

• Through an evaluated learning contract students will establish, manage and complete goals and objectives related to an agency need.
• Through the supervision of 3-10 students will demonstrate knowledge of management styles, leadership skills, recruitment and training, conflict resolution and performance appraisal.
• Through a reflective paper the student will analyze their effectiveness as a supervisor.

CORE 591.16: Disability Management
To identify the history and legislative factors which influence insurance and rehabilitation and principles of business of insurance and rehabilitation and the nature of private versus public nonprofit compensation systems.

CORE 591.17: Management of Not-for-Profit Organizations

CORE 591.01: Advocacy & Leadership on Consumer Services

BIOL 305: Anatomy & Physiology
CORE 301.01: Health Foundations: Developmental Disabling Conditions
CORE 301.02: Health Foundations: Adult Onset Disabling Conditions
CORE 301.03: Health Foundations: Disabling Conditions Associated with Aging
CORE 593.07: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

BIOL 305

Anatomy and Physiology
(or equivalent)

CORE 301.01

Health Foundations: Developmental Disabling Conditions

Explores the relationship between anatomy and physiology and disabling conditions of childhood. Seminar discussion activities using on-line chat and forum Internet capabilities. Case studies focus on Internet on-line chat, forum, and self-directed study.

• Developmental disabilities within particular anatomical/physical systems, and the structure and function of the human body.

• Through worksheets/case studies demonstrate the foundations and philosophy of rehabilitation and disability from a medical/systems perspective.
• Through worksheets/case studies understand the practical implications of anatomy and physiology as they relate to client strengths and needs.
• Through worksheets/case studies develops an awareness of information resources to encourage the integration of multiple conceptual constructs of disabling conditions.
• Promotes through on-line forums and chat sessions, interactivity and collaboration using on-line communication capabilities.

CORE 301.02

Health Foundations: Adult onset Disabling Conditions

Explores the relationship and integration between anatomy and physiology and adult onset disabling conditions in the context of community rehabilitation practice.

• Adult-onset disabling conditions within particular anatomical/ physiological systems generally covered in an anatomy and physiology course.
• Structure and function of the human body.

• Through on-line worksheets and case studies, understand the practical implications of anatomy and physiology as they relate to client strengths and needs and quality of life in the context of community rehabilitation practice and develop an awareness of information resources in order to encourage the integration of multiple conceptual constructs of disabling conditions.
• Through on-line forums and chat sessions promote student interactivity and collaboration using existing on-line communication capabilities.

CORE 301.03

Health Foundations: Disabling Conditions Associated with Aging

This course will facilitate the understanding of the relationships between anatomy and physiology, and disabling conditions associated with aging, in the context of community rehabilitation.

• Study of disabling conditions as they relate to the structure and function of the human body.
• Exploration of current research related to the conditions.
• Understanding of relevant practice implication when considering the practical and holistic needs of older clients.

• Through on-line worksheets demonstrates the ability to discuss the anatomical and physiological effects of specific disabilities associated with the aging process and considers how such disabilities may affect the activities of daily living for order adults and those important to them.
• Through case study presentations demonstrates ability to explore strategies by which research based, pragmatic, socially acceptable and rehabilitation principles that are linked to a knowledge of anatomy and physiology can be implemented for older adults with disabilities within the context of community.

PSYC 371: Behavioral Neuroscience
Neuropsychological, neurophysiological and neurophamacological approaches in psychology. A Prerequisite for more advanced courses in behavioural neuroscience.

SOCI 321: Medical Sociology
Medical institutions and professionalization, social attitudes toward illness and care, and how society structures the "sickrole"

SOWK 319: Death and Dying
Biopsychosocial and spiritual factors are involved in death and dying.

SOWK 327: Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Analysis of problems related to the abuse of alcohol and drugs.

WMST 321: Women and Health
An interdisciplinary examination of women's experience of physical and psychological health and perceptions and treatment of women within health care systems. The role of women as health care providers in families and society. Examples will come primarily, but not exclusively, from the Canadian context.

CORE 603.01

Foundations of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies

The purpose of this course is to ground students in the epistemology of community rehabilitation and disability issues, contrasting and comparing sources of knowledge from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives.

Content covered will include an examination of the contributions to and limits of our knowledge about disability and community-based interventions as derived from an examination of a variety of sources which underpin the field. Content will include:
• Seminar on critical social theory and its applications to understanding disability in our cultural context, historical representations of disability, the evolution of social policy, and empirical traditions of research pertaining to the field.
• Critical readings from a selected number of categories of articles, chapters and books.

• Ontology/Epistemology of the field. What is truth? How do we know truth?
• Understanding of the role of theory in community rehabilitation and disability studies (e.g. ecological, systems, structural, empowerment, etc.)
• Historical underpinnings to contemporary understandings.
• Nature of systems and their limits.
• Analysis of personal experiences of disability.
• Policy context and current issues.

CORE 603.02

Advanced Seminar in Assessment and Interventions for Children with Special Needs and Their Families

In-depth study of theory and practice in Community Rehabilitation domains. Course content delivered in work-study model.

• Transdisciplinary Play Based Assessment
• Transdisciplinary Play Based Intervention
• Family Assessments
• Play Therapy (taken in conjunction with Play Therapy certification)
•  Screening and Diagnostics with infants and children at risk.

• As identified within each seminar.

CORE 603.03

Advanced Seminar in Career Development For Adult Onset Disabilities

In-depth study of theory and practice in Community Rehabilitation domains. Course content delivered in work-study model for Pan Canadian graduate students.

While the seminar topics will reflect current trends and applications, they may include:
• Vocational rehabilitation return to work plans.
• Functional abilities assessment.
• Cognitive assessment and retraining.
• Chronic pain management.
• Assistive and adaptive aids.
• Workplace modifications.

• Evaluates and adapts career development theories in practice.
• Identifies and plans for the social, psychosocial, cultural factors that impact on a person with an adult onset disability.
• Utilizes occupational information to develop RTW programs.
• Identifies appropriate components necessary for successful RTW programs.

CORE 603.04

Community Rehabilitation Practice and the Aging Process

In-depth study of theory and practice in Community Rehabilitation domains. Course content delivered in work-study model.

• Physical, social and psychological features of aging and their interaction with disabilities.
• Models of aging. Distinction between normal, "successful", and pathological aging.
• Interaction between social, biological, economic, physical environmental, and aging.
• Coping, social support and aging.
• Ethical issues related to aging and disability. For example autonomy, competency and advanced care directive.

• Makes decisions based on the knowledge of physical, social and psychological effects of aging and distinguishes between successful and pathological aging.
• Identifies ethical issues related to disability and aging.
• Translates the theory of stress, coping and social support in aging and disability into practice.

CORE 603.05

Inclusive Education: Adapting Curriculum in Schools K-12

A variety of practical strategies for developing meaningful curriculum and instructional methods for students with severe disabilities. The strategies are premised on using the content of typical community collaborative team approaches to planning and implementing programs for students.

• Transition processes, activities and supports needed for success for parents, teachers and other educators.
• Transition: elementary to junior high, junior high to senior high and senior high to employment or secondary education.
• Inclusive learning strategies.
• Adapting curriculum. (Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, etc.)
• Social learning experiences in inclusive classrooms and schools.

• Facilitates transition processes relevant to age group served.
• Demonstrates the adaptation of the regular curriculum to provide meaningful content for all students.
• Builds strategies that address the learning needs of all students.
Adapts the social environment of the classroom.
• Implements a variety of peer learning experiences.
• Builds effective collaboration with parents, school personnel, post-secondary education and work.

CORE 603.06

Work-Based Evaluation Strategies

Lecture and lab-work explicating vocational development through a comprehensive process that systematically uses work,rea or simulated, as the focal point for assessment and vocational exploration.

• Historical and contemporary context of vocational evaluation.
• Vocational evaluation process, planning and reporting.
• Governing bodies and certification.
• Work-based evaluation strategies and tools: work examples, situational assessment, functional capacities assessment, and; job analysis/labour market research.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Recognize the role and function of vocational psychometrics within the evaluation process.
• Differentiate between vocational evaluation and assessment.
• Critically analyze vocational evaluation processes and reports.
• Define governing bodies and vocational rehabilitation terminology.
• Identify evaluation strategies and a sample of tools.

CORE 603.07

Becoming an Ally: New Approaches to Case Management

Lecture and mentored practicum in case planning and management that values partnership with clients and other stakeholders.

• Historical, cultural, and personal interpretation of such terms as: client-driven, client-centered, client choice, dignity of risk, least intrusive, case and management, gifts. Roles and responsibilities associated with each will be considered.
• Strategies to ensure client participation and leadership in conferencing (conferencing for people who are illiterate, blind, deaf or medically fragile). e.g., PATH, video-taping, life-style and values, mapping based on familiar history.
• Strategies for facilitating a sense of cooperation and collaboration among conference team members and methods for handling differences of opinion.
• Assessment and Intervention - historical, current and client centered approaches.
• Transition assessments - one transition in depth.
• Goal planning and documentation.
• Monitoring and negotiating change within confines of funding, service guidelines.

• Facilitates a client centered client case conference.
• Prepares, implements and monitors a service or support plan.
• Demonstrates knowledge of funding alternatives related to assessments and service provision.

CORE 603.08

Foundations in Community Rehabilitation: Law in Community Rehabilitation

Demonstrates knowledge of applications of Canadian legal principles and practices in individual civil law, advocacy and criminal justices.

• Constitutional law: specifically the role of the Charter.
• Criminal justice (state vs. the individual) rights and responsibilities of the victim, the accused and the non-legal professional in criminal justice processes.
• Civil law (the individual vs. individuals or groups), personal injury, liability and tort.

• Identify the legal issues and challenges underlying practice in community rehabilitation.
• Use legal resources to clarify and communicate issues and need for support to clients and members of a rehabilitation team.
• Work with legal professionals to incorporate legal requirements and safeguards in community rehabilitation practice.
• Demonstrate familiarity with various dispute resolution alternatives that may be beneficial to clients.
• Demonstrate knowledge of procedures related to providing expert opinion testimony.

CORE 603.09

Vocational Case Study

Applied studies in vocational development using detailed client profiles and incremental assessment and evaluation results to simulate the steps in vocational evaluation.

• Selection and interpretation of psychometric testing.
• Development of vocational evaluation plan.
• Completion of vocational evaluation.
• Formulation of rehabilitation action plan (report).

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Identify the incremental steps and sequencing of vocational evaluation from the beginning of the process to the end.
• Recognize diversity in client profiles and presenting vocational issues.
• Demonstrate familiarity with a range of appropriate psychometric tests and assist in interpretation of subsequent results.
• Contribute to the development of a vocational evaluation plan.
• Design and develop work samples, and assist in interpretation of results.
• Critique rehabilitation action plans (reports).

CORE 603.11

New Alliances in Community Rehabilitation: Interprofessional Ethics

Direct experience working within interprofessional teams in addressing challenges to codes of ethics and community practice.

Ethical practices related to:
• Professional strategies and public accountability (professional codes of ethics, codes of practice, legislation, certification, licensing).
• Direct service in the community (confidentiality, consent, vulnerable populations).
• Supervision, teaching, research and evaluation (quality assurance, partnerships in research).
• Negotiating within and between systems (community organizations, policy development, social responsibility and social justice).
• Methods of interprofessional decision making and conflict resolution.
• Awareness of potential conflicts between personal, professional and client and moral standards.

• Engages consumers and other stakeholders in articulating values, processes and standards of practice.
• Identifies and resolves ethical dilemmas involving more than one professional discipline.
• Evaluates rules and policies in light of ethical principles.

CORE 611.01

New Alliances in Community Rehabilitation: Power and Participation

Direct experience in the relationships underlying new forms of practice which challenge the existing power balances.

• Pre-session reading on models of community development and community practice and forms of power.
• Field theory of social power.
• A model of community practice based on development principles.
• Examination of power relationships that impair or facilitate participation.

• Analyzes personal participation in interdisciplinary teams.
• Evaluates personal practice relationships.
• Analyzes situations in light of social power.

CORE 611.03

New Alliances in Community Rehabilitation: Social Construction and Interdisciplinarity

Personal exploration of the underlying constructions and metaphors of practice, professions and systems encountered and the client groups supported.

• Approaches to social construction (critical theory, constructivist psychology and narrative).
• Applications of social construction.
• Narrative and social change.

• Identifies underlying theory and disciplinary metaphors form professional texts.
• Identifies and reconciles professional, advocacy and personal voices within issues and ideas.
• Explores conflicted and complementary metaphors.
• Contributes to on-line discussions from personal experience and readings.

CORE 611.04

New Alliances in Community Rehabilitation: Narrative and Social Change

Case study of the role of narrative in social change in groups.

• Personal, social and role empowerment as evidence within groups.
• Impact of social innovators, change agents and reference groups in empowerment and social change.
• Impact of cultural narratives and the role of the challenging story in social change.

• Identify and distinguish between the processes of personal, social and role empowerment within the case studies.
• Interpret empowerment according to changes in group narratives, metaphors and myths.
• Apply knowledge gained in case studies to understanding change and empowerment, or lack thereof, in communities, groups or agencies.
• Facilitate a learning experience within a group setting.

CORE 611.05

Community Rehabilitation Narrative and Intervention Narrative and Intervention

Application of narrative and empowerment theory to individual clinical practice.

Frameworks for Rehabilitation Counselling/Intervention for the 21st Century: Social construction, post structuralism and post modernism.

Overview of Counselling in the Spheres of Rehabilitation: Health, coping, inclusion and meaning.

What is Narrative Therapy: Externalizing and naming the problem, use of contexts, exception to challenges new script for change, deconstructing and constructing new scripts.

Tools of Narrative Intervention: Letters, personal stories, autobiography, video documentaries, stories within theory of empowerment, narratives of illness and change, scripts frameworks, determining and naming scripts, metaphors in therapy and organizational change, rituals of healing and transformation and outsider witnessing.

Use of Narrative in Community Rehabilitation: counselling, interviewing and assessment, case planning, organizational change and community development.

• Apply one narrative constructs in practice.
• Evaluate differences in approaches, tools, and uses of narrative therapy.

CORE 624

Specialization theory and Practice

An independent study contract outlining theory and practice in specialization.

• Dependent upon specialization.

• Demonstrates an advanced knowledge of the specialization field of research and practice.
• Demonstrates competence at he graduate level in area of specialization.

CORE 624.01

Leadership and Social Policy in Human Service Reform

Leadership and social policy in human service reform is course based, focused on theory and practice targeted for students who will specialize in social policy. Others who may be interested are those who have interest in social policy and how it supports practice.

This course will explore many of the prominent reformist ideologies prevalent in the 20th century. Key concepts in social policy development and analysis will be presented. Of particular interest is the role policy plays in professional practice.

Students will:
• Have knowledge of reformist ideology underlying human service reform.
• Have an understanding of models of social policy development.
• Be able to use a number of frameworks for social policy analysis.
• Have an awareness of political activism and its role in reform.
• Be able to link of relevant social policy to professional practice framework.
• Examine relevant legislation and policy within a determined framework.

CORE 676

Consultation and Evaluation in Human Services and Systems

Qualitative and quantitative evaluation research informs the design and implementation of a collaborative evaluation of a rehabilitation program, policy or system.

• Conceptual base and linkage between interdisciplinary and inter-agency needs assessment.
• Service design
• Program development
• Service delivery systems
• Program models
• Data collection
• Cost analysis and cost benefit
• Risk management models
• Social action research
• Evaluation methodologies

• Evaluate programs by determining appropriate evaluation methodologies.
• Examine philosophy, goals and effects on outcome research.
• Implement a data collection system.
• Identify management and organizational implications.
• Outline a cost analysis and cost benefit plan.

CORE 691.10

P.A.S.S.I.N.G: Evaluation of Human Service Settings in the Community

An evaluation/assessment method will be introduced including an intensive practicum in which students will gain experience applying the tool.

• Overview of SRV based assessment.
• Practicum experience in two settings to apply the assessment tool.
• Analysis of implementation of social role valorization theory in the context of community rehabilitation settings and program services.

• Demonstrates understanding of social devaluation and the implications in community rehabilitation setting for people across the life span.
• Applies SRV evaluation constructs to rehabilitation settings.
• Analyzes and interprets data gathered to determine evaluation ratings in the P.A.S.S.I.N.G. evaluation tool.

CORE 691.20

International Comparison of Disability Policy

Transitional comparison of disability policy is an opportunity for students to identify the similarities, differences and complexities of disability policy. This unique opportunity will allow students to hear from disability policy specialists, visit organizations offering services to individuals with disabilities and to discuss the disability policies of Canada, the United States and Mexico.

This course will explore the federal, provincial and state policies related to disability. Key components will include legislation, policy and program guidelines that affect the delivery of services to individuals with disabilities. Of particular interest is the opportunity to visit organizations and agencies in each of the three countries participating in the consortium. A key feature of this course is the opportunity to travel, discuss and observe the practices of another jurisdiction.

Students will:
• Have a general understanding of key federal, provincial and state legislation initiatives.
• Have an understanding of the role policy plays in the delivery of services.
• Be able to link policy initiatives to professional practice.
• Identify key similarities and differences among the countries.
• Identify current directions in disability policy.

CORE 691.21

Community Economic Development and People with Disabilities

A workshop course with Internet sessions designed to define and foster the emergent knowledge and practice of community economic development by and with disabled people.

Bringing together knowledge domains to promote intellectual and practical resources for people with disabilities by training practitioners to use community economic development as a strategy to extend autonomy, build community and enhance democratic participation.

• Synthesize knowledge from disability studies, economic development and community development.
• Explore processes of community economic development as it relates to disability.
• Explore political implications of community economic development.
• Explore combined funding over the long term.

CORE 693.03

Inclusive Education: Addressing Challenging Behaviours in the Classroom

This course will examine the participant's belief systems about challenging behaviour. Participants will be offered opportunities to learn about successful strategies for supporting difficult students within a classroom setting.

• Values and beliefs about challenging behaviours.
• Ways to think about behavior within the situational context.
• Dealing with conflict, bullying and anger.
• Positive approaches to difficult situations.

• Know how to support students to manage stressors in the learning environment.
• Know how to collaborate to build consistency for students.
• Know how to build social skills within a classroom setting.

CORE 693.04

Inclusive Education: Current Issues in Collaboration, Ethics, Management and Related Topics

Each year a topic is negotiated with the education sector in partnership with provincial advocacy organizations.

• Ethics and resource allocation.
• Ethic of caring and quality education.
• Accountability and leadership.
• Shared ethics and conflicts of interest.
• Legislative implications and social policy directives.
• Leadership of inclusive schools and school systems.
• Corporatization and educational partnerships.

• Evaluates and discusses current issues.
• Analyzes policy documents and archival materials.
• Participates in examining decisions made in contested cases.
• Participates in creating shared visions of future options in public education.

CORE 693.05

Workplace Accommodation and Modification

This course will introduce and discuss theoretical and practical considerations surrounding workplace accommodation and modification. These terms will be defined and contrasted in order for participants to discover the difference in the need for and application of accommodation and modification in the lives of individuals experiencing difficulty in their work or life roles. The steps involved in assessing the need for accommodation or modification will be reviewed and reinforced with practical group projects. A variety of case studies will be presented and discussed to demonstrate a range of client difficulties and illustrate practical steps taken in these cases to reduce those difficulties. Assignments will offer to consolidate the concepts presented. The experience and comments of the participants will be elicited to broaden the scope of the topics discussed and to utilize the expertise of the course participants in the exploration of this topic.

• Presentation and discussion of accommodation and modification theory and practice.
• Group activities to practice applying concepts.
• Review of case studies.
• Presentation/discussion of resource materials.

• Develop practical skills and knowledge for assessing the need for accommodation/modification.
• Recognize the need for accommodation versus modification.
• Familiarity with resources.
• Familiarity with tasks analysis.
• Familiarity with difference between essential and non-essential job tasks.