A Reality Model for Rehabilitation Counselor Education
The reality model in rehabilitation counselor education is often implemented in a setting, such as a hospital, a rehabilitation facility, or an agency, where performance of the counselor is basic to his professional survival in the setting. It is not a role-playing situation; it is a real life situation where the client's future is dependent on the reality helpfulness of the counselor. These authors suggest that rehabilitation counselor educators thoroughly scrutinize certain experiential approaches and that they not discard the salient variables of the reality model and replace them with experiential placeboes. The mistakes in early educational designs, which produced “activity” but failed to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, should not be repeated.