The American School Counselor Association National

Model describes advocacy as a key role for professional school counselors, and numerous advocacy activities are presented in the model. Several authors have con-tributed to the literature on advocacy; however, the lit-erature and the National Model do not delineate the dispositions, knowledge, and skills required for advo-cacy. The purpose of this article is to present and describe school counselor advocacy competencies recent-ly introduced in a book by Brown and Trusty (2005). A lthough advocacy has a long tradition in the counseling profession (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001), school counselors ’ roles as advocates have only recently received widespread attentio