The Professional Association of Rehabilitation Counselors (PARC) is a national association of counselors with a graduate degree in rehabilitation counseling or a related mental health degree who work in the health, mental health, substance abuse and rehabilitation settings under a variety of job titles.
PARC has specialty divisions for substance abuse counselors, clinical mental health counselors, and rehabilitation counselor educators, in addition to a general rehabilitation counselor division.
PARC also has special interest groups (SIGS) in administration and supervision, counseling theories, group work, holistic (alternative healing therapies), spirituality, marriage & family counseling, multiculturalism, nontraditional roles for rehabilitation counselors (EAP/private counseling & rehabilitation), offender rehabilitation, physical disabilities, rehabilitation policy, sexuality, violence (spouse/child abuse/crime), vocational (DVR/job placement/career counseling/vocational evaluation/forensic/vocational expert testimony), and women's and men's issues.
