Counselor Advocacy: Affecting Systemic Change in the Public Arena |
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Authors: | Courtland C Lee Roe A Rodgers |
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Institution: | Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Maryland, College Park |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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