Discussion Post: Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC)
Scenario:
You are a certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC) and licensed professional counselor (LPC) employed at a Rehabilitation and Treatment Hospital. You are a member of an interdisciplinary team for the Limb Deficiency Unit.
Elias is a 70-year-old retired university economics professor. Prior to his SCI he lived independently in a wheelchair accessible apartment style condominium, had a grown child who lived across the country, and exercised at the local gym every weekday morning at 6:00am. This fit gentleman of 180 lbs., 5'9" with no other significant co-morbidities was involved in a hit and run collision while walking to the gym early one morning, and two weeks post injury was admitted to a spinal cord injury rehabilitation unit. He was examined on day 14 post injury. He was out of spinal shock and described as having an AIS C T12 level spinal cord injury.
Discuss the following items.
• Discuss the functional goals for injury at T-12 level.
• How will you explain these different functional goals to Elias and family members in layperson's terms?
• How will a person's ASIA scale classification impact his/her functional goals?
• Of various functional goals, which do you think is most important psychosocially, and why? Explain your thoughts lucid and succinct.
• Of various functional goals, which do you think is most important for pleasure e.g., hobby and why? Explain your thoughts lucid and succinct
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.