Professional Development
Professional Development Overview
RCAA members are expected to adhere to the Code of Professional Ethics and work within their scope of practice in line with NASRHP standards. Please refer to the links below for further guidance.
The Code of Professional Ethics
Under the Code of Professional Ethics rehabilitation counsellors are committed to facilitating the personal, social, and economic independence of individuals with disabilities and/or individuals who experience social disadvantage.
Core Competencies
Rehabilitation counselling competency research conducted in Australia has found that rehabilitation counsellors identify vocational counselling, professional practice, personal counselling, rehabilitation case management, workplace disability case management, and workplace intervention and program management as important and frequently used job functions and knowledge areas (Matthews, Buys, Randall, Biggs & Hazelwood, 2010).