About Us

The purpose of VCU ARCA is to be an organized support group for students interested in the field of rehabilitation counseling. Rehabilitation counseling is a highly specialized field of the counseling profession which focuses on assisting, treatment of and rehabilitation from limitations associated with physical, emotional, and cognitive disabilities, as well as, mental and physical illnesses. To that extent, rehabilitation counselors serve as therapists, service coordinators, case managers, advocates, educators, and ultimately facilitators of change. Although an understanding of counseling techniques and theories serves as a foundation for rehabilitation counselors, it is through knowledge of the human body, medicine, technology, law, politics, psychology, and sociology that rehabilitation counselor's function most effectively.