ABSTRACT
Advocating Student-within-Environment (ASE) is a theory of practice that was developed specifically for school counseling professionals. In this chapter, ASE theory is introduced as a systems approach to working with individual students, groups of students, educators, and other school-related stakeholders. As an approach to practice, adherents to ASE theory provide direct services to students and the people influential to their lives as co-determinants of experience. In this chapter, the basic philosophical and practice priorities are introduced, as is the brief history of the theory development.
