There is a rise in calls for counselors to be advocates for social justice. Describes how the faculty of a counselor-education program developed and implemented a social-advocacy model of counselor preparation. At a systems level, the ACA Advocacy Competencies model identifies Community Collaboration as the efforts of counselors to work with a community or school to address some oppression or barrier facing the community. Advocacy Model The concept of advocacy captures significant variation in the ways in which participating social workers worked for social justice. Counselors can meet the growing need to expand their roles to include advocacy by using the ACA (American Counseling Association) Advocacy Competencies (J. Rehabilitation counselors have been urged to consider advocacy as an ethical imperative (Vash, 1987). The counseling competencies are embedded in four distinct domains: counselor self-awareness, client worldview, counseling relationship, and counseling and advocacy interventions. Encourages counselor educators to consider the value of social advocacy in counselor preparation. The model shown below allows helping professionals to visualize the 3 domains of advocacy: Individual (microlevel), school/community (mesolevel), and … (Author/MKA) A. Lewis, M. S. Arnold, R. House, & R. L. Toporek, 2002). appropriate for the counselor to advocate on behalf of the client or student. Literature on client advocacy has existed in various forms for more than two decades. States that preparing counselors to be advocates for change puts counseling in action. The model is composed of 117 specific competencies that serve as markers of cultural competence. It is the closest thing to embodying social justice at a practice level in clinical social work. 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