UBC Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling

UBC School of Rehabilitation Sciences

UNBC Disability Management

U of C Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies

Program

Part-time on campus or online; non-thesis
(3 years to complete)

Online only

Full or part time on campus, or part-time online; thesis or exam option

Combination of distance and face-to-face; part or full time (2 to 2.5 years to complete)

Goals

Assist individuals to return to former job or new or modified employment; productive lifestyle; independent living

Occupational therapy theory, research & practice – designed to meet or exceed provincial and national standards of practice

Assist with job retention with pre-disability employer and RTW strategies for injured workers and/or workers with disabilities

Assist individuals and communities in taking control of well-being. Design, deliver, evaluate community-based services of short-term and/or ongoing support. Identify and respond to challenges of health, education, justice and welfare reform.

Scope of Applicability

All persons with disabilities
Job attached and job unattached
All ages

private & public sector health care, as well as social & industrial areas

Job-attached workers
Limited range of clinical conditions:
- uncomplicated soft tissue injuries
- mild disabilities

All persons with disabilities
Job attached and job unattached
All ages

Skill Set

- assessment and planning
- counselling
- job development and placement
- case and disability management

- essential competencies for occupational therapists

- case and disability management

- case planning
- job development and placement
- case and disability management

Rehabilitation Model

biopsychosocial

medical/ecological

labour relations

ecological/case management

Empirical Validation

high

high

unknown in isolation from other aspects of rehabilitation

unknown – does not appear to incorporate medical aspects

Knowledge Base

Interdisciplinary:
- clinical disciplines: medicine, psychology, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, ergonomics
- workplace: occupational health & safety, organizational psychology, business administration, program evaluation, economics, sociology
- education, human and career development

Interdisciplinary:
- clinical disciplines:
Medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, ergonomics
- workplace: occupational health & safety
- community: health, sociology, environmental
- education, human and career development

- workplace: occupational health & safety, organizational psychology, business administration, program evaluation and economics
- community: health, social work, education

- workplace: occupational health / therapy,
organizational, program evaluation and legal
- community:
sociology, anthropology,
social, psychology
- education, human and career development