Transforming Our Professional Organizations: A First Step Toward the Unification of the Rehabilitation Counseling Profession

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Leahy ◽  
Vilia M. Tarvydas
Keyword(s):  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

This article provides a contextual background for the current unification efforts underway between the National Rehabilitation Counseling Association (NRCA) and the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA). It includes a brief history of collaborative efforts between these organizations, the identification of salient issues and trends, and observations about the unification of our national professional associations.

Rehabilitation Counseling's Phoenix Project: Re-visiting the Call for Unification of the Professional Associations in Rehabilitation Counseling

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Michael J. Leahy ◽  
Vilia M. Tarvydas ◽  
Brian N. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Current Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

The purpose of this white paper is to re-visit the call for unification of the professional associations representing rehabilitation counseling. The current status and issues associated with the multiple associations representing the discipline will be briefly reviewed. A brief history of collaborative efforts between these organizations, salient issues and trends, and observations about the critical need to unify our national professional associations will be included and discussed. Finally, a set of specific actionable steps will be recommended to move the discipline to unify and establish one professional association that represents all rehabilitation counselors both nationally and internationally.

Leadership in Rehabilitation Counseling: Considerations for the Future

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy N. Tansey ◽  
Gregory G. Garske
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Great Success ◽  
The Future ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Future Leaders ◽  
Collaborative Efforts ◽  
Over Time

This paper reflects on the need to develop future leaders in rehabilitation organizations. Since the early beginnings of the rehabilitation profession in the United States, professional organizations have evolved, had great success, but have often run parallel to each other. Despite the numerous instances of professional organizations in rehabilitation counseling coming together for a common purpose, there has been a marked inability to maintain those collaborative efforts over time. Leaders in the future must find ways of recognizing the differences of the organizations and finding ways to see these challenges as potential opportunities that will allow the profession to move forward and grow. Recruiting and grooming creative leaders will be key.

The Profession of Rehabilitation Counseling and AER: A Call for Articulation

1987 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
pp. 433-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.M. Szymanski
Keyword(s):  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Articulation Agreements ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
History Of

This paper contrasts the history of AER with professional organizations in rehabilitation counseling. Issues in rehabilitation counseling which concern a variety of areas and work settings are highlighted. Professional literature in rehabilitation counseling as well as professional nondisability-specific organizations are discussed in relation to AER. A case is made for interorganizational articulation agreements which incorporate regular reciprocal literature reviews.

Rosa's Law and the Language of Disability: Implications for Rehabilitation Counseling

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Edmund Degeneffe ◽  
Jacylou Terciano
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Government Printing ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
Counseling Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Campaigns

National campaigns promoting the use of the term intellectual disability (ID) have culminated in the recent U.S. congressional passing of Rosa's Law. Rosa's Law changes how ID is referred to in federal disability programs by removing all references to the term, “mental retardation” (U.S Government Printing Office, October, 2010). Little is known about how the change in language will affect rehabilitation counseling practice and education. Accordingly, this article addresses the following: (a) history of the descriptors of ID, (b) the stigmatizing effects of terminology, (c) eliminating the use of the r-word through Rosa's Law, and (d) implications for the rehabilitation counseling profession.

History and Development of School Social Work Within Professional Organizations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy A. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
School Social Work ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
National Association ◽  
School Social Workers ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Work Council ◽  
Work Community ◽  
History Of

Professional associations have been present since the birth of the visiting teacher/school social work movement in 1906. The five major associations—National Association of School Social Workers, National Association of Social Workers, the Midwest School Social Work Council, State School Social Work Associations (both individually and as a group), and the School Social Work Association of America—collectively provide vital services such as conferences and publications that form the foundation of the profession. Their decisions have shaped the history of school social work as well as maintain the current level of services to the school social work community. The practice of school social work today is based in large part on the decisions made by the professional associations in the past and now.

scholarly journals A Grounded Theory Approach to Defining Fragmentation and Unification in the Rehabilitation Counseling Profession

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Tingey ◽  
Michael J. Millington ◽  
Jared C. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
Political Network ◽  
Counseling Literature ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Fragmentation has been identified in the rehabilitation counseling literature as the cause of a crisis, and unification is forwarded as the cure. However, these terms are not well defined. Definitions are proposed here, providing a framework for a grounded theory study of inter- and intra-organizational communications among thirteen professional organizations via their websites. Two network models emerged from the analysis. The first described a political network that advocates for the profession. The second described a service-based network that responds to customer needs. The meaning of unification and fragmentation within these two models is explored. Authors find that the profession is more thoroughly unified in political advocacy than it is for advancing practice.

scholarly journals Provenances: Real, Fake, and Questionable

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patty Gerstenblith
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
International Market ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Provenance Information ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Standards Of Evidence

Abstract:Provenance, the ownership history of an artifact or work of art, has become one of the primary mechanisms for determining the legal status and authenticity of a cultural object. Professional associations, including museum organizations, have adopted the “1970 standard” as a means to prevent the acquisition of an ancient object from promoting the looting of archaeological sites, which is driven by the economic gains realized through the international market. The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), one of the museum world’s most influential professional organizations, requires its members to list the ancient artworks and artifacts that they have acquired after 2008 that do not conform to the 1970 standard in an online object registry. The study presented here of the AAMD’s Object Registry for New Acquisitions of Archaeological Material and Works of Ancient Art analyzes the extent to which AAMD member museums do not comply with the 1970 standard and, perhaps of greater significance, the weaknesses in the provenance information on which they rely in acquiring such works. I argue that systematic recurrences of inadequate provenance certitude are symptomatic of the larger problem of methodology and standards of evidence in claiming documented provenance. A museum’s acceptance of possibly unverifiable provenance documentation and, therefore, its acquisition of an object that may have been recently looted, in turn, impose a negative externality on society through the loss of information about our past caused by the looting of archaeological sites.

The History of Occupational Therapy Assistants in Canada: A Comparison with the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Salvatori
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Training Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Affiliation ◽  
Standards Of Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Training

In the middle of the twentieth century, the role of occupational therapy assistant was introduced in North America. Although the role, utilization and training of assistant personnel have raised much controversy and debate within the profession, Canada and the United States have taken very different paths in terms of dealing with these issues. This paper focuses on the history of occupational therapy assistants in Canada, using the experience in the United States for comparison purposes. The occupational therapy literature and official documents of the professional associations are used to present a chronology of major historical events in both countries. Similarities and differences emerge in relation to historical roots; training model and standards of education; certification, regulation, and standards of practice; career laddering and career mobility; and professional affiliation. The paper concludes with a summary of issues which require further exploration, debate and resolution if the profession is to move forward in Canada.

Judicial Professional Associations: Fostering Judicial Reform Through Civil Society Development

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milica Golubovic
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Turnover Rate ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Judicial Reform ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bar Association ◽  
Copy And Paste

AbstractThis article documents the history of judicial professional associations (the Judges' Association of Serbia, Prosecutors' Association of Serbia, and Magistrates' Association of Serbia) in Serbia from their early development in the mid-1990s through the present day. With a close focus on the associations' relationship with USAID implementing partner American Bar Association/Central Europe and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), the article identifies the challenges to establishing sustainable judicial professional associations. These challenges include a lack of secure funding, low organizational and administrative capacity, a high turnover rate of volunteers and employees, reliance on foreign-generated 'copy-and-paste' activities that do not take local needs into account, and uneasy relationships with the local and central governments. Successes of the fledgling judicial professional associations are also noted, including the implementation of continuing legal education (CLE) seminars.

‘Professional’ Organizations in the Hellenistic World

2021 ◽  
pp. 520-533
Author(s):  
Ingomar Weiler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Professional Athletes ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Hellenistic World ◽  
History Of

This contribution focuses on the development of the so-called ancient ‘professionalism’ in sport. Beginning with an often quoted passage in Galen’s Thrasyboulos and some critical comments by Plato and Euripides on athletes, the paper discusses the various definitions of professional athletes in modern scholarship (E. N. Gardiner, H. A. Harris, J. Jüthner, H. W. Pleket, N .B. Crowther, D. Young, H. Lee, M. Golden, D. G. Kyle). The last mentioned scholars show that the application of the nineteenth-century concepts of amateurism and professionalism to ancient sports is anachronistic. There, however, is no doubt that changes existed in the history of athletics since the foundation of the gymnasium. The rise of ‘professionalism’ is connected to this development. The second part discusses various types of ‘worldwide’ athletic guilds (synodos tōn hieronikōn kai stephaneitōn, ecumenical federation of athlētai). These guilds made efforts to retain guarantees concerning their privileges, exemptions, and honors. Two documents from the late Hellenistic period (inscription of Erythrae, letter from Mark Antony) illustrate these endeavours.

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