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(16) Brown responded to her role as social change agent by developing a unique pedagogy that was both political and protective.

Through this article, the authors hope to inspire counseling social change agents to consider the practice of counseling beyond the borders of the United States.

Within the context of K-12 schools, the ACA advocacy competencies can aid professional school counselors in meeting the challenges that come with being a social change agent (Rubel & Ratts, 2007).

For this reason, scholars in the mental health field have been increasingly calling for more systematic social justice work and for mental health professionals to identify and operate as social change agents (e.g., Blustein, Elman, & Gerstein, 2002; Fouad et al., 2004; Herr & Niles, 1998; Ivey & Collins, 2003; Kiselica & Robinson, 2001; Speight & Vera, 2004; Toporek, Gerstein, Fouad, Roysircar-Sodowsky, & Israel, in press; Vera & Speight, 2004).

While the authors allude to the pervasive and insidious nature of oppression and see the professional school counselor as a social change agent, there is much to be done systemically, as they pointed out, to eradicate or minimize the impact of these oppressions.

Since the 1970s, there has been a consistent call to the profession (Dworkin & Dworkin, 1971; Lee & Walz, 1998) to acknowledge the array of problems in society and the counselor's ability to be a social change agent. Recent efforts by the American Counseling Association (ACA) have fostered the resurfacing of advocacy in the form of social action as a pressing issue for consideration by counseling practitioners, educators, and researchers.

a social change agent challenges cultural, social, historical, or economic barriers that stifle optimal mental health and human development" (p.

In our country government departments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and other social change agents are serving in creating awareness about contraception.

These frames serve as a resource for preparing the next generation of service-learners, social entrepreneurs, and social change agents to "translate careful thought into effective action" (Freeland, 2009, cited in Enos, p.

They are social change agents. They buy every day in the commercial market.

They describe activities based on the critical dialogic approach known as IGD (intergroup dialogue) used in race and ethnicity dialogue and multiracial identity dialogue courses, the development of white students as allies and social change agents through race/ethnicity intergroup dialogue courses, individual participants' commitment to action in these courses, and the dialogic process and the role of listening in influencing outcomes.

TCUs prepare our nations' current and future leaders, educators, entrepreneurs and social change agents. They do so from the context of tribal knowledge gained from observation, from oral tradition, from spiritual practice and in formal settings.