Strengthening Rehabilitation Professional Identities: Including Grief Education as a Psychosocial Aspect of Disability

The primary objective of this paper is to call attention rehabilitation counseling educators and leaders include grief support as part the training curriculum. Disability chronic illness have long been associated with loss, death anxiety, sorrow. prevailing model psychosocial adaptation disability emanated from theories has well conceptualized applied in both understanding experiences providing effective services. However, counselors expressed a lack competency confidence concept for people disabilities. Too often, pervasive loss pathology prescriptive notions, which criticized by clinicians scholars bereavement research practice. To address concern, proposes including education counselor curricula. In addition, several suggestions are made program design implementation within context CACREP curricula requirements.