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The Rehabilitation Counselor Scale

A New Scale for the Revised Strong Interest Inventory

University of Memphis, Tennessee, sleierer{at}memphis.edu

Douglas C. Strohmer

University of Memphis, Tennessee

Terry L. Blackwell

Montana State University-Billings

Richard C. Thompson

Consulting Psychology Press, Inc., Palo Alto, California

David A. C. Donnay

MDA Leadership Consulting Minneapolis, Minnesota

The vocational interests of rehabilitation counselors were explored by developing an occupational scale for the Strong Interest Inventory, Revised Edition (SII; 2004). A sample of 414 rehabilitation counselors who were satisfied with rehabilitation counseling as their profession completed an experimental version of the SII. Based on these data, the Rehabilitation Counselor Scale (RCS) was developed. In this article, the authors examine data on the characteristics of the scale, differences between males and females on this scale, and differences between privately and publicly employed rehabilitation counselors. Implications for recruitment and selection of new members of the rehabilitation counseling profession are discussed.

Key Words: career assessment • vocational assessment • rehabilitation counselors professional issues

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Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 2, 68-75 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0034355207311341


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