Abstract
The purpose of the current research was to develop an instrument that (a) represented the existing knowledge standards used in rehabilitation counseling certification and accreditation, and (b) allowed for identification of new and emerging knowledge areas. Participants were 1,025 counselors who renewed their certification in 1991. Principal components analysis in which all items were loaded revealed the following knowledge domains: (a) Vocational Counseling and Consultative Services; (b) Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Disability; (c) Individual and Group Counseling; (d) Program Evaluation and Research; (e) Case Management and Service Coordination; (f) Family, Gender, and MulticulturalIssues; (g) Foundations of Rehabilitation; (h) Workers' Compensation; (i) Environmental and Attitudinal Barriers; and (j) Assessment. Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the resulting 10 subscales of the instrument ranged from .72 to .95 indicating moderate to high internal consistency reliability.
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