Define it!
Synonyms for Advocacy
What are Advocacy counseling, Social action, Social Justice?
The first movement to impact advocacy in school counselling.
What is the Social Reform Movement?
This paradigm has Advocacy as one of its four themes on which the National Model framework is based.
What is ASCA?
This one of the areas that school counselors should be competent in.
What are either
•dispositions
•knowledge
•skills?
Areas that counsellors should have knowledge about.
•Resources
•Parameters
•Dispute resolution mechanisms
•Advocacy models
•Systems change
Missing words in this definition:
The act of ______ up or taking _____ to make environmental changes on behalf of clients.
What are speaking and action?
School counsellors were called to be this during the 1960s and early 1970s, which was a period of great social unrest in the United States.
What is called to change agents?
This approach in counselling is more active & directive role, helping beyond self directed efforts.
What extrapsychic?
This disposition focuses on being aware of and embrace their professional advocacy roles.
What is the advocacy disposition?
Examples of dispute resolution mechanisms that counsellors should be knowledgeable about.
What are knowledge of mediation and conflict resolution strategies for working toward successful resolution of disputes?
Examples of advocacy for the school profession.
What are through individual actions and via participation in and support of professional counselling associations?
In the revisiting of the social advocacy concept, attention was placed on this.
What are multiculturalism and multicultural counseling competencies?
This paradigm emphasizes the importance of school counsellors advocating for access to rigorous education for all students.
What is TSCI?
Professional school counselors with this disposition recognize that parents-guardians are often the best advocates for their children.
What is the family support/empowerment?
A skill that is useful for strong relationships for advocacy.
What is collaboration skills?
Another way to be an advocate other empowering clients to work on their own behalf.
What is responding on behalf of clients?
Three examples of social issues that affect society in the 21st century.
What are individuals with disabilities, racial and ethnic minority groups, women, senior citizens, homeless individuals and families, immigrants, migrants, and gays and lesbians, substance abuse, environments threatened by by-products of industrializations, teenage pregnancy, suicide, declining norms for the traditional family, AIDS, rapid changes in the economy, the workplace and employment opportunities and child abuse?
In this counselling approach, much emphasis was placed on individual counseling, one-to-one relationships.
What is intrapsychic?
This disposition not only advocate for particular students and families, they also advocate to eliminate inequities and barriers affecting all people.
What is the social advocacy disposition?
This skill requires careful and detailed planning, gathering of information, collection and presentation of data, organized action, and follow up.
What are organizational skills?
The goal of advocacy
What is helping clients challenge institutional and social barriers that are impediments to academic, career or personal social development?
School counselors were expected to do take this role and respond this way during the 1960s and early 1970s.
What is have an interventionist role; respond to the “forces outside the school as those within it and, in so doing, actively support the student”. Idealistically, school counsellors should be placed in the role as advocates.
This paradigm encourages school counsellors to take the lead in planning and advocating for less costly, and more efficient interventions for students and their families.
What is the School Community Collaboration Model?
Professional school counsellors with an ethical disposition possess this.
What is placing a high value on professional codes of ethics?
School counsellors can do this to ensure that they are competent in self-care skills.
Professional school counselors develop coping skills to avoid burnout:
•12-month contracts
•Additional funding to reduce the ratio of counselors to students
•Released time during weekdays who work during evening and weekend hours
•Sabbatical leaves
•Supportive counselling and supervision services
•Keeping up to date
•Reading professional books and journals
•Attending workshops and conferences
•Have a self care action based on a thorough analysis