Robert Rocco Cottone, Ph.D., is a Professor of Counseling and Family Therapy at the University of Missouri--St. Louis in the Department of Counseling and Family Therapy. He earned his A.B. and M.Ed. degrees at the University of Missouri--Columbia and his Ph.D. degree at Saint Louis University. He has served on the American Counseling Association (ACA) Ethics Task Force that produced the 2005 revision of the association's ethics code. He chaired the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association's and the Commission of Rehabilitation Counselor Certification's collaborative Code of Professional