| Richard J. Beck, Ph.D., C.R.C. | |
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Associate Professor
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Specializations: Counseling persons with disabilities in several areas - chronic pain, posttraumatic stress, cardiac, and substance abuse; Private-sector rehabilitation counseling, and forensic rehabilitation, including the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Dr. Richard Beck is an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling at the Rehabilitation Institute at SIUC. He received his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1987 in Rehabilitation Psychology, and has had 26 years of rehabilitation field experience. He has worked as counselor, placement specialists, supervisor, and evaluator in both the public and private rehabilitation sectors. In 1985 he was President of the Wisconsin Association of Rehabilitation Practitioners in the Private Sector (WARPPS). He is bilingual (Spanish/English) and bicultural by marriage (his wife is a Mexican immigrant, and his children were adopted in Mexico). He is a musician by avocation, and he believes that counselors should "drink from the fountain of culture" if they are to be sensitive to the needs of their clients. His publishing emphases are in the areas of chronic pain and other special disability populations, private-sector rehabilitation counseling, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the philosophical bases of counseling. |
