Discuss an example of when you have provided advocacy on a student’s behalf and identify relevant ethical principles associated with the steps toward student advocacy.

As you develop your counseling skills, you will become more adept at applying specific tools from your chosen theoretical orientation to a specific client or student. These tools from your chosen theoretical orientation to a specific client or student. These tools will become your “tackle box” – specific interventions that you will know where, when, and how to apply. Putting together an effective and versatile tackle box will continue throughout your career as you develop your professional identity, your reflective practice, and with the development of new interventions. The Counselor’s Tackle Box Topics List in your Learning Resources for this Week provides you with a list of topics that include writing prompts you will use to build your tackle box.

This week, you will select a topic from the list and address the writing prompt from your theoretical orientation for your client population at your field sites. When you post your review of the topic, and read the posts of your colleagues, you build out each other’s tackle boxes. By the end of your Field Experience, you and your colleagues will each have submitted a total of four different topics in which you applied your counseling skills with clients at your approved field sites.

Topic: Advocacy/Social Change:

Discuss an example of when you have

provided advocacy on a student’s behalf and

identify relevant ethical principles associated

with the steps toward student advocacy.

Discuss the role of the student in your

advocacy efforts and the role of your

theoretical lens within your actions. How can

this example be expanded to impact social

change for other students with similar needs

on a larger scale?