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

Gatekeeper identity development: An application of bioecological systems theory

“…Bronfenbrenner's model has received a considerable amount of recent attention in counselor education (see Bettis, et al., 2020; Chan et al., 2019; Dufrene, 2018; Lau & Ng, 2014). Understanding gatekeeping from this comprehensive developmental approach may help identify gaps in current gatekeeping practices, influence preparation of doctoral students, and strengthen the gatekeeper identities of counselor educators and counselor educator programs.…”

Counselor Education and Supervision: 2019 Annual Review

“…Scholarship regarding advocacy in the profession was conceptual and qualitative in nature. Conceptual articles focused on enhancing counselor queer training and preparation (Killian et al, 2019); providing an ecological systems framework for student-focused advocacy work (Chan et al, 2019); and addressing the "conscience clause" in training to safeguard the welfare of clients seeking counseling services, training students to provide affirming counseling to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer peoples (Rose et al, 2019). Qualitative scholarship investigated counselors-in-training and experiences with legislative advocacy at a state capitol (Swank, Houseknecht, & Williams, 2019); site supervisor modeling, involving, engaging, empowering, and pushing advocacy in mental health settings (Storlie et al, 2019); and the teaching of professional advocacy through modeling and active-learning projects (Havlik, Malott, et al, 2019).…”

Gerontological Counseling Trends in Adultspan Journal : 1999–2019

“…With the omission of empirical research, counselor preparation programs lack teaching tools to align best practices with scholarly evidence and empirical data. This disparity signifies a potential lack of opportunities for the role of counselor educators not only to advocate for students who have interest in GC, but also to teach students about opportunities for client, community, professional, and legislative advocacy (Chan et al, 2019). Relatedly, Fullen et al (2019) reported that between 1992 and 2017, only a handful of counseling researchers had published a critical mass (i.e., more than two) of journal articles about gerontology, GC, or older adults in counseling journals.…”

“…This finding suggests a lack of counseling scholars with a research agenda focused on aging. Despite an urgent call to counseling scholars to respond to caregiver needs (Bordonada et al, 2018; Kepic et al, 2019), Medicare reimbursement (Chan et al, 2019), and other key GC issues, empirical research has been slow to develop.…”