Vocational rehabilitation counseling is a systematic process which assists persons with physical, mental, development, cognitive, and emotional disabilities to achieve their personal, career, and independent living goals in the most integrated setting possible through the application of the counseling process. The counseling process involves communication, goal setting, and beneficial growth or change through self advocacy, psychological, vocational, social, and behavioral interventions.
VMS Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors counsel individuals and provide group educational and vocational guidance services. Counselors collect, organize, and analyze information about individuals through records, tests, interviews, and professional sources, to appraise their interests, aptitudes, abilities, and personality characteristics, for vocational educational planning. Counselors compile and study occupational, educational, and economic information to aid counselees in making and carrying out vocational and educational objectives.
In addition, counselors provide clients with placement services. Furthermore, counselors assist individuals to understand and overcome social and emotional problems and may engage in research and follow-up activities to evaluate counseling techniques.
Finally, counselors interview clients to obtain information, such as medical history, and work limitations; give and receive client information in person, by telephone, or mail to authorized persons; and prepare appropriate client histories, service plans, and reports.