Journal of Counseling and Development articles

Recent articles from Journal of Counseling and Development

Starfish, salmon, and whales: an introduction to the special section.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Viewpoint essay)
June 22, 2009... In the summer of 2001, when I was newly in my role as the president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), Judy Lewis, then immediate past president of ACA, and I had an informal lobby meeting with several people during a conference. Those counselors, some of whom are represented in...

Promoting systemic change through the ACA Advocacy Competencies.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(American Counseling Association)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Counselors have always been change agents and advocates (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001; Lewis & Bradley, 2000; Toporek, Gerstein, Found, Roysircar, & Israel, 2006). They have recognized that their clients and students often needed more than what face-to-face counseling could provide. They have...

ACA Advocacy Competencies: social justice advocacy at the client/student level.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(American Counseling Association)(Report)
June 22, 2009... There is a growing movement calling on counselors to implement social justice advocacy strategies and interventions into counseling practices (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001; Ratts, D'Andrea, & Arredondo, 2004; Toporek, Gerstein, Fouad, Roysircar, & Israel, 2006). Calls for counseling...

Social justice advocacy: community collaboration and systems advocacy.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Report)
June 22, 2009... This article addresses the community collaboration and systems advocacy domains articulated by the American Counseling Association (ACA)Task Force on Advocacy Competencies (Lewis, Arnold, House, & Toporek, 2002). These domains involve the community, school, and interacting systems in which...

Counselor advocacy: affecting systemic change in the public arena.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Case study)
June 22, 2009... Deamonte was a 12-year-old student in a public school system in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. One day he got a toothache. Deamonte's mother, who was a wage-reliant worker, had no health insurance, and the family's Medicaid coverage had temporarily lapsed. Because of their situation,...