Community and Public Arena Advocacy Training Challenges, Supports, and Recommendations in Counseling Psychology: A Participatory Qualitative Inquiry
2016
Despite a continuing need for clinicians to engage in socially-‐just
practice that addresses systemic factors impacting the mental health of clients through
advocacy, there are often limited formalized opportunities for doctoral counseling
psychology students to be exposed to and to engage in community or public arena advocacy.
Two counseling psychology faculty members initiated and supervised a Participatory Action
Research (PAR) team comprised of six advanced counseling psychology doctoral students and
three early career counseling psychologists with experience conducting community and public
arena advocacy. The nine PAR team members explored the doctoral students’ experiences
conducting advocacy during their doctoral training and the resulting qualitative data was
analyzed using a content analysis methodology. The study results highlight the challenges
inherent in facilitating and conducting these types of advocacy training activities, discuss
essential supports provided by their doctoral programs, and offer recommendations to
counseling psychology faculty interested in preparing their students to engage in this
work.
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