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Counselor Advocacy: Affecting Systemic Change in the Public Arena
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Lee, Courtland C.; Rodgers, Roe A. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2009
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…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Change Strategies, Social Action, Social Change
A Planned Change Approach to Consultation and Youth Service.
Strommen, Merton P. – 1979
Findings are presented from an experimental study of consultants, a three-year project funded by the Human Services Development Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the purpose of which was to provide a technology for use by consultants within youth-serving organizations in the diffusion and utilization of innovative programs.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Consultants, Consultation Programs, Counselor Role
The School Counselor's Role in Facilitating Multisystemic Change.
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Keys, Susan G.; Lockhart, Estes J. – Professional School Counseling, 1999
Examines how school counselors can apply systems theory and social ecology to problem conceptualization and intervention planning. Also explores the implications of this broadened paradigm for the school counselor's role. Asserts that in order to achieve broad-based change, schools, families, and communities must engage in collaborative problem…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Counseling Theories, Counselor Role
Getting Ahead by Turning 180 Degrees: Brief Therapy in the Public Schools.
Kral, Ron – 1987
This paper presents the basic premises of Solution Focused Brief Therapy, a model of intervention based on systems theory, and how this approach is uniquely suited to the needs of school psychologists within a public school setting. Five key principles are described: (1) complaints are interaction based; (2) change in one part of the system leads…
Descriptors: Brief Psychotherapy, Change Strategies, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role
The Development of Counseling Programs: Priorities, Progress, and Professionalism
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Shaw, Merville C. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1977
Only a few years ago counselors saw no role for themselves in program design and development. Now, however, things are different. Perhaps the "change agent" emphasis of the late '60s changed that. Today there is a virtual explosion of systems methods, including consultation strategies and environment mapping. (Author)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Consultation Programs, Counseling Services
Beyond the Systems Approach to Family Therapy: An Ecological Perspective.
Coleman, Paul R.; Griffith, Mariellen – 1980
A brief review of systems theory provides a rationale for an underlying theoretical model within which systems theory can be more completely understood. The essence of the model is that persons are the major unit of study because the available means of satisfying "basic needs" define and shape interaction patterns in the family as in other human…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Counselor Role, Ecological Factors, Family Counseling