P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 2671
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated hereinbelow:
(a) Association. — Means the Puerto Rico Professional Rehabilitation Counselors Association.
(b) Rehabilitation counselor. — Means the duly licensed, certified or re-certified rehabilitation counseling professional, who with the adequate knowledge of human behavior and development and of social institutions, uses the principles and techniques of rehabilitation counseling to provide persons with disabilities with or without functional limitations with the services compatible with their rehabilitation needs.
(c) Rehabilitation counseling. — Means an individual or group comprehensive process, structured and enabling in nature that establishes an interactive relationship between the rehabilitation counselor and the person with or without functional limitations for the integrated development of his/her abilities and skills directed to all aspects of life including his/her goals as to employment or an independent life to achieve an optimum quality of life. This process is directed to developing or restoring the functional independence and quality of life of the human being. The functional independence sought through the rehabilitation counseling process involves various goals that entail: involvement, self-sufficiency, integration, and independent life. This includes high quality of life indexes that are the result achieved as part of the integrated rehabilitation of a human being. This provides the opportunity for including significant dimensions and particular considerations in the life of a human being such as the medical, psychological, social personal, cultural, educational, vocational and spiritual aspects.
(d) Persons with disabilities. — Means that person who suffers from one or more physical, developmental, cognitive, sensorineural and emotional or mental condition that limits his/her capabilities or possibilities of functioning in an occupational activity or from enjoying an independent and meaningful lifestyle, integrated with his/her surroundings or in community environment.
(e) Board. — Means the Board of Examiners of Rehabilitation Counselors, created by virtue of §§ 2651—2661 of this title.
History —Aug. 16, 2006, No. 160, § 2; Dec. 26, 2007, No. 214, § 1.