Advocacy Counseling for Female Survivors of Partner Abuse: Implications for Counselor Education

✍ Scribed by Danica G. Hays; Eric Green; Jonathan J. Orr; Lea Flowers

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 130 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-0035
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2007.tb00024.x

✦ Synopsis

This article outlines ways by which counselor educators may prepare counselors and counselor trainees to be advocates for survivors of partner abuse. Advocacy strategies for counselors and counselor trainees working with survivors of partner abuse are provided, integrating the 5 components of collaboration, context, competence, critical consciousness, and community (E. McWhirter, 1998) within an ecological framework.