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Counseling Leaders & Advocates
Strengthening the Future of the Profession
edited by
Cassandra A. Storlie
Barbara Herlihy
American Counseling Association
6101 Stevenson Avenue, Suite 600
Alexandria, VA 22304
Copyright © 2022 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.
American Counseling Association 6101 Stevenson Avenue, Suite 600 • Alexandria, VA 22304
Associate Publisher • Carolyn C. Baker
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Copy Editor • Kay Mikel
Cover and text design by Bonny E. Gaston.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Storlie, Cassandra, editor. | Herlihy, Barbara, editor.
Title: Counseling leaders and advocates: strengthening the future of the profession / editors, Cassandra A Storlie, Barbara Herlihy.
Description: Alexandria: American Counseling Association, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021019223 | ISBN 9781556204012 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Counseling. | Counseling—Moral and ethical aspects. | Social advocacy. | Counselors—Professional ethics.
Classification: LCC BF636.67 .C68 2021 | DDC 158.3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021019223
Dedication
To the future leaders and advocates in the counseling profession.
Preface
We (Cassandra A. Storlie and Barbara Herlihy), as coeditors of this book, welcome you to Counseling Leaders & Advocates: Strengthening the Future of the Profession! As professional counselors, we are naturally drawn to and curious about the stories of our clients. Our curiosity allows us to delve into their worldviews and provides an avenue to better understand how to advocate with and for them. In a parallel way, each of us engages in a form of leadership known as “servant leadership” by ensuring that service is central to the counseling profession and that the needs of others come first (Greenleaf, 1970). This servant leadership philosophy, which is congruent with the founding principles of counseling, fueled our own curiosity about the stories of our current counseling leaders. How do their unique stories help us better understand diverse worldviews and the future of leadership and advocacy in the counseling profession? Part I provides more detailed information about the organization of the book and perspectives on leadership and advocacy; Part II presents the stories of 13 leaders/advocates and is truly the heart of this work; and Part III provides a synthesis and some concluding thoughts. We are excited to offer this book and hope you will find it enjoyable and instructive. For us, serving as coeditors for this work has truly been a labor of love.
Acknowledgments
When any new book appears, hidden behind the curtain are vital contributors without whom the work would not exist. This book is no exception. We are grateful to the five leaders/advocates who served as our Academy of Advisors, participating in a modified Delphi process to select the leaders and advocates who are profiled in Part II. We greatly appreciate the work of the two peer reviewers who read the first draft of this work and provided many insightful comments and helpful suggestions for improvement. Working with our publishers, Carolyn Baker and Nancy Driver, at the American Counseling Association has been a true pleasure. We further thank our family, friends, and colleagues who have encouraged and supported us throughout this process.