Chapter 5: Advocacy

Question 1

What is advocacy?

Answer 1

1) Making change (personal and broad change)
2) Empowering clients on an individual level
3) Using your privilege to help someone else
4) Promoting dignity and worth
5) Breaking down barriers that are hindering empowerment (What can I do to change that barrier?)

Question 2

Triple Threat:

1) Passing it on, giving client their own power
2) Boosting clients self-esteem, getting them to a place where they feel confident
3) Help clients realize that barriers aren’t defining factors in their lives (promote realism)

Answer 2

Empowerment

Question 3

System that allows access to benefits and privileges of a society based on membership to a particular group (someone of a minority status: racial, gender, homeless, mental illness, physical disabilities, members of different religious groups, single parents)

Answer 3

Oppression

Question 4

Dominant groups hold the power and are in some way, unjust to the oppressed group (that is how the dominant group stays in power)

Answer 4

Oppression

Question 5

Label imposed on you, physical/psychological pain, deprivation (keeping people away from equal access to what dominant group has)

Answer 5

Oppression by force

Question 6

Keeps one group in control, majority status

Impacted by yours and others perceptions of your oppression

Answer 6

Privilege

Question 7

Belief that we can have a just world with equality and equal distribution and access to privileges in society

Answer 7

Social Justice

Question 8

_____ for the client is acting with the client and helping them break through barriers collaboratively

Answer 8

Advocating

Question 9

Advocating for the counseling profession
Making sure we are able and prepared to work with others in the mental health field
Research

Answer 9

Advocacy on the systematic level

Question 10

Stating clearly your profession and what kind of counselor you are

Answer 10

Marketplace Recognition

Question 11

Was all about empowerment from the beginning

Answer 11

Frank Parsons

Question 12

Reform of mental health practices and facilities

Answer 12

Richard Beck

Question 13

Counseling was one of the first to promote and use multiculturalism (gender identity and sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic status)

Answer 13

1980s

Question 14

ACA developed division for LGBTQ

Answer 14

1990s

Question 15

Added division of counselors for social justice

Answer 15

2000s

Question 16

Self & others are aware

Answer 16

Overt Oppression (Primary)

Question 17

Being silent and complicit and allowing oppression to go on

Answer 17

Covert Oppression (Secondary)

Question 18

You grow up with stereotypes and they are inherited
Ex.: Woman saying “You throw like a girl”
Gay person whose family or group is homophobic has these inherited stereotypes

Answer 18

Internalized Oppression (Tertiary)

Question 19

Barriers to treatment

Answer 19

Being in a minority group (this can cause stress which can go hand in hand with physical and mental health problems)
These groups also lack access to treatment

Question 20

This causes more stressors, less access and more conflict, less social support, lower quality schools, less equipped education, more dangerous living conditions, crowded neighborhoods

Answer 20

Poverty