ABSTRACT
Good advocacy has to be part of good counseling. The greater the client's exposure to adversity, the more important the counselor's role becomes as an advocate for responsive services. Advocate for better built capital tailored to the needs of a community's most vulnerable citizens. Clinical work that focuses on the needs of individuals and what they can do to change has been shown to be effective, up to a point. Interventions that account for the quality of young people's social ecologies and the need for these to also change are an important part of good counseling. When individuals, families, and their communities face challenges, whether chronic or acute interventions that shape a young person's social ecology are even more important to sustaining well-being. Services are sufficiently complex when their number and interactions are numerous enough to match the complexity of the multiple problems people experience in challenging social ecologies.
