Agents of Change
This role involves counselors initiating transformations in individuals, families, or systems.
What is an agent of change?
Counselors in this setting assist students with academic, career, and personal/social development.
What is a school setting?
A counselor gives expert advice to another professional to improve services.
What is consultation?
This process involves multiple professionals working together to support a client’s well-being.
What is collaboration?
This counselor role involves speaking up for the needs of clients or marginalized groups.
What is an advocate?
A counselor encouraging a school-wide anti-bullying initiative is practicing this type of change.
What is systemic change?
A private office where therapists meet with clients individually or in groups.
What is a private practice?
This model emphasizes a two-way collaborative relationship between consultant and consultee.
What is the collaborative consultation model?
A school counselor and a social worker co-developing a student support plan is an example of this.
What is interdisciplinary collaboration?
When clients learn to speak up for their own needs, they are engaging in this.
What is self-advocacy?
This change occurs when a counselor helps a client reframe negative thinking patterns.
What is cognitive change?
This setting supports individuals with severe mental illness, often involving case management.
What is a community mental health center?
This type of consultation is used when expertise is sought for a specific problem.
What is expert consultation?
True collaboration involves shared decision-making and this kind of relationship.
What is a mutual partnership?
Advocating for policy changes to increase mental health funding is this type of advocacy.
What is public or systemic advocacy?
A counselor fostering empowerment within marginalized communities is an example of this.
What is social justice advocacy?
Counselors in this environment help couples or families resolve conflict and improve communication.
What is a marriage and family counseling setting?
The school counselor advising a teacher on behavior management techniques is an example of this.
What is indirect service delivery?
One barrier to effective collaboration can be this, especially between different professions.
What is role confusion?
A counselor providing support to help a client navigate social services is practicing this.
What is case advocacy?
These individuals often catalyze change through leadership, vision, and action.
Who are change agents?
This setting focuses on counseling services within correctional institutions.
What is a forensic or correctional setting?
This consultation model views the consultee’s behavior or skills as the main focus of improvement.
What is the behavioral consultation model?
In counseling, this approach emphasizes working with families, schools, and communities together.
What is the ecological approach?
Advocates must be aware of and sensitive to these factors that influence client experiences.
What are cultural and social determinants?
This term refers to the counselor's intentional use of strategies to produce growth.
What is planned intervention?
This counseling setting specializes in grief, loss, and end-of-life issues.
What is hospice or bereavement counseling?
Consultation differs from counseling because it typically focuses on this rather than personal change.
What is systems improvement?
This tool is often used in collaborative settings to define goals, tasks, and responsibilities.
What is a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)?
This type of advocacy addresses unfair systems and promotes equal access to services.
What is social justice advocacy?
Promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in a workplace represents this kind of change.
What is organizational change?
This workplace-based setting helps employees cope with stress, trauma, and work-life issues.
What is an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?
A mental health consultant working with a team to develop trauma-informed practices is offering this.
What is programmatic consultation?
Collaboration across agencies improves this, ensuring seamless services.
What is continuity of care?
This document from the American Counseling Association outlines the ethical obligation to advocate.
What is the ACA Code of Ethics?
This counseling theory emphasizes clients’ potential to change through self-actualization.
What is person-centered therapy?
A hospital environment where counseling services are provided to patients and families.
What is a medical or health care setting?
Consultation that takes place among professionals within the same organization.
What is internal consultation?
A collaborative counselor promotes open communication, mutual respect, and this.
What is cultural humility?
A counselor presenting data to local officials about community mental health needs is engaging in this.
What is legislative advocacy?
A counselor helping clients advocate for community health resources is affecting this level of change.
What is community-level change?
A setting where counselors help clients recover from substance abuse and maintain sobriety.
What is a substance use treatment center?
This process involves gathering information, offering feedback, and developing action plans.
What are the stages of consultation?
In collaborative partnerships, this is essential to maintain client confidentiality.
What is informed consent?
Advocacy is often linked with this other professional function that involves stakeholder input.
What is collaboration?
Counselors facilitate this type of change by challenging institutional barriers and advocating for reform.
What is systemic transformation?
This setting provides immediate, short-term counseling during crises.
What is a crisis intervention center?
Effective consultants demonstrate this interpersonal skill, which helps build trust.
What is active listening?
Successful collaboration often leads to this, where multiple systems work together efficiently.
What is integrated care?
Effective advocates use this to raise awareness and mobilize support.
What is public education or outreach?