What Life Care Planners Need to Know About the Professional Discipline of Rehabilitation Counselors

The specialty practice of life care planning was originally begun by a rehabilitation counselor and includes vocation as an essential life domain. Rehabilitation counseling has historically, and still is today, a profession that focuses on providing the highest degree of community, vocational, recreational, and independent functioning possible. The primary credential that identifies a rehabilitation counselor is the Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) certification which can be commonly misunderstood as strictly a vocational support profession. Rehabilitation Counselors who also coordinate life care plans have the expertise to not only provide input for the vocational aspects of the plan, but the ability to coordinate care and assist in building independence.