A Message from Dennis R. Maki, PhD
Departmental Executive Officer

Welcome to the Home page of the Department of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education, which is housed within the College of Education at The University of Iowa.  The department prepares students to facilitate human development across the life span, to advocate for clients and students, and to serve local, national, and international communities through the delivery and creation of state-of-the-art counseling services. The department achieves these goals by advancing knowledge, skills, and attitudes appropriate for effective and ethical professional counseling practice and by conducting and disseminating related research.

The Department prepares practitioners and scholars primarily at the graduate level. It also offers basic courses in interviewing and interpersonal skills for students in other professional and graduate programs. In addition, it offers an undergraduate minor. 

Counselor Education and Supervision

Counselor Education and Supervision is a doctoral level specialty area within the counseling profession accredited since 1989 by the Council on Accrediation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP). Counselor Educators are tied together through standards and ethical codes of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) a division of the American Counseling Association.

Couple and Family Therapy

The Doctor of Philosophy in Couple and Family Therapy (CFT) prepares professionals for CFT leadership roles in academic and research settings, administration and supervision, and clinical delivery systems. It provides CFTs the opportunity to master cutting edge theoretical knowledge; research competencies at the most innovative levels, advanced clinical, teaching, and supervisory skills.

Rehabilitation Counselor Education

Welcome to the Home page of the Ph.D. Program in Rehabilitation Counselor Education. The Ph.D. program prepares professionals for leadership roles in rehabilitation counselor education, research, administration, and service delivery systems. Persons admitted to the program focus on three areas of advanced development: counselor education and supervision, research, and professional practice. The program is flexible, permitting students to select and pursue.

Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling 

The programs are consumer-focused rehabilitation and mental health counseling and counselor education programs. For many years, The University of Iowa has contributed numerous practitioners, educators, researchers, and administrators to the profession of rehabilitation and mental health counseling. The program offers a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Counselor Education and an M.A. in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling.

School Counseling

The mission of the school counseling program is to enhance the academic, career, social and personal development of all children and adolescents in schools by preparing students with counseling, consulting and coordinating skills, generating knowledge about effective helping strategies and interventions, and leading the profession within the state and the nation.

Why Iowa?

The Department of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education has established a new PhD program in Couple and Family Therapy, headed by our new faculty member, Volker Thomas, PhD. 

This Doctoral Program is seeking accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE); it aims to develop researcher-clinicians who are excited about the possibility of making significant research contributions to the field of marriage and family therapy (MFT).

For more information, go to the Couple and Family Therapy program home page.


Spotlight

International Partnership

Leslie Santos is among the latest in a string of scholars who have come to the University of Iowa from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) since the mid-1990s to study in the UI College of Education’s Rehabilitation Counselor Education Program.