12 TPC Digest 12 Since the American Counseling Association (ACA) first endorsed the Advocacy Competencies in 2003, counselors have been urged to develop their social justice advocacy (SJA) identities to serve clients and students (a) at the individual level (e.g., client, student, family), (b) at the community level (e.g., agency, school, campus), and (c) at the public level (e.g., legislative, societal). Given the context of the sociopolitical, economic, and health crises in recent years, counselor engagement and confidence in SJA has become critical for competent practice. Although researchers have explored the role of SJA in counseling, there remains a gap in the literature exploring how SJA identity develops within counseling. As counselors and counseling students, we felt unprepared to fulfill our ethical (and for many of us, moral) duty because we had not learned enough about the tangible skills a professional counselor can utilize to challenge oppression and inequity. Sunanda M. Sharma, Jennifer E. Bianchini, Zeynep L. Cakmak, MaryRose Kaplan, Muninder K. Ahluwalia Taking Action: Reflections on Forming and Facilitating a Peer-Led Social Justice Advocacy Group Read full article and references: Sharma, S. M., Bianchini, J. E., Cakmak, Z. L, Kaplan, M., & Ahluwalia, M. K. (2024). Taking action: Reflections on forming and facilitating a peer-led social justice advocacy group. The Professional Counselor, 13(4), 462–472. doi: 10.15241/sms.13.4.462
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