Counselor Advocacy: Affecting Systemic Change in the Public Arena

✍ Scribed by Courtland C. Lee; Roe A. Rodgers

• Book ID: 102284241
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 87
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1556-6678
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2009.tb00108.x

✦ Synopsis

This article provides direction for developing advocacy competency in the public arena. Direction for increasing public awareness, affecting public policy, and influencing legislation is presented. A process of creating change entailing establishing a sense of social/political urgency regarding an issue, organizing and educating a group of people to initiate social/political change, developing a vision and strategy for such change, communicating the vision for that change, empowering broad‐based action, and generating actual change is detailed.