Advocacy Evaluation for Counselors Serving LGBTQ Populations

ABSTRACT

Advocacy and social justice initiatives for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) clients in counseling emphasize counselor and client collaboration in challenging discrimination and oppression and promoting LGBTQ inclusive sociopolitical changes. Although researchers have highlighted the counseling and advocacy needs of LGBTQ populations, few have yet examined processes for assessing the outcomes of advocacy efforts. Advocacy evaluation may provide counselors and counseling organizations with a framework for monitoring and assessing the outcomes of LGBTQ advocacy initiatives. The authors discuss the goals and elements of advocacy evaluation and review the LGBTQ Counseling Advocacy Evaluation Self Assessment.     

Changing Roles for Women: Implications for Marriage Counselors*

Noting that marriage counselors focus on the male-female relationship and that changes affecting women also affect men, the author examines changes in womens' roles in American society and draws implications for marriage counselors. Editor.     

高校辅导员媒介素养的提升策略

高校辅导员大多与在校大学生年龄相仿,学习与生活场域接近,被誉为大学生身心成长与政治成熟的第一导师。辅导员的媒介素养将直接对大学生产生影响。辅导员的媒介使用习惯符合青年学生的新媒介使用特点,具有较强的贴近性和互动性。辅导员应当利用这种优势,提升媒介素养,如加强关注信息专注力、提升信息识别力,提高媒介参与力和提升舆论引导力,在舆论引导、网络思政等方面发挥人生导师的作用。     

Jeopardy: A Career Information Game for School Counselors

This article outlines one innovative approach by which school counselors can reinforce students' learning of important career information.     

Counselors as Social Advocates

ABSTRACT

The authors discuss the importance of social advocacy and empowerment models in working with lesbian clients. They also explore the multiple contexts that impact lesbian clients and their families. A case illustration involving a lesbian client facing issues of internalized homophobia, heterosexism, sexism, and legal issues is presented. Suggestions for applying a feminist and social advocacy approach are offered.     

Career Counselors as Advocates and Change Agents for Equality

This analysis of the career counseling profession's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats emphasizes the importance of the profession's contributions to fostering equality in a democratic society. Career counseling professionals and their National Career Development Association are well positioned to expand their concentration on fostering the career development of individuals to encompass advocacy about public policy and agency in changing systems. Advances in the use of technology, attention to multicultural issues, and advocacy of holistic models have the potential to enrich the career counseling profession's contributions to individual development and social equality.     

Equal Relationships: Fostering Growth for Clients and Counselors

Luthman, S. G., & Kirschenbaum, M. The Dynamic Family .
Stapleton, J., & Bright, R. Equal Marriage .     

Gay Men in the Workplace: Issues for Mental Health Counselors

The author looks at major issues that affect gay men who are deciding on, competing for, and working in the jobs and careers available in today’s changing job market, and the implications for mental health counselors who may serve them. Included is an in-depth review of the current academic counseling literature on gay men in the workplace, highlighted by reports from the national gay press.