Moving Counselor Educators to Influential Roles as Advocates: An Ecological Systems Approach to Student-Focused Advocacy

ABSTRACT

Counselor education has served as an instrumental root of professional advocacy intertwined with the history of counselor professional identity and values of client/student advocacy and social justice. The capacity for counselor educators to initiate platforms of advocacy among students continues to remain an extensive priority. Grounded in an ecological systems framework, this article systematically derives applications for counselor educators to institute student-focused advocacy at multiple systemic levels.

KEYWORDS:

• Bronfenbrenner
• counselor education
• counselor professional identity
• ecological systems
• student-focused advocacy