The Commission on Rehabilitation Counseling Certification (CRCC) describes the role of rehabilitation counselors as providing analysis and diagnostic information on mental,
emotional, or behavioral conditions of their clients in order to develop an appropriate treatment plan for
adjustment or
healthy development.
Generally, authors agree that decreases in parental control over both adolescent behavioral and
emotional functioning domains are necessary to promote
healthy adolescent
adjustment (Baumrind, 1991c), as is consistency of high levels of warmth and acceptance (Hauser et al., 1984; Holmbeck, Paikoff et al., 1995; Powers, Hauser, Schwartz, Noam & Jacobson, 1983).