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Social justice counseling, like all humanistic models, recognizes the dignity of each human being, affirms the right of all people to choose and work toward their own goals, and asserts the importance of service to community. The social justice paradigm brings a special emphasis on the role of the environment. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)

In 2003, the American Counseling Association (ACA) adopted the ACA Advocacy Competencies (J. A. Lewis, M. S. Arnold, R. House, & R. L. Toporek, 2002) to provide guidance to counselors and acknowledge advocacy as an ethical aspect of service to clients. This article provides a foundation for this special section by sharing a historical perspective on recent pivotal advocacy movements within the profession. An overview of the development and content of the Advocacy Competencies is provided followed by a case example to assist counselors in understanding and enhancing their application.

In this interview with Bernardine Dohrn, an advocate for the rights of children and families, Dohrn shares her outlook on the often hostile environment affecting today's families, allowing counselors to join her in amplifying "the voice of children and families who are voiceless." (MKA)

Drawing from interviews with advocates that addressed disaster recovery issues after Hurricane Katrina, the authors highlight three groups of women--domestic violence/sexual assault workers, advocates of federal postdisaster policy, and members of public housing resident councils. Women's efforts to mobilize networks and resist unfair policies, particularly in the context of a disaster, are discussed. Keywords: advocacy; disaster; Hurricane Katrina; women; community organizing

ACROSS THE CONTINENTS, countries are embracing distance education as a means of upgrading large cadres of nursing care providers--from aide to auxiliary, general or technical to professional, baccalaureate to master's, [...]

Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857. By Elizabeth Foyster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii plus 282 pp. $70.00 Hardback; $27.99 Paperback). Marital Violence is an interesting treatment of [...]

The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975. By Hera Cook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii plus 412pp.). This is an admirable book, and at times, a [...]

Despite changing family compositions, entrenched in family law is the antiquated idea that a two-parent household, or its approximation vis-à-vis a shared custody arrangement, promotes stability and integrity and, thus, is in the best interest of the child. Yet, the concept that the two-parent household (or shared involvement of both parents in the child's life if the parents separate) promotes stability for the family and is best for the child is a dangerous fallacy. When rape or intimate partner violence (IPV) is present, or the re-occurrence of violence remains a threat, the family unit is far from stable. This Article explores the legal system's glorification of the nuclear family, its resistance to shifting away from the two-parent paradigm, and how this resistance creates a stability paradox and perpetuates violence against women and children. The harmful impact that the nuclear family paradigm has on families is further explored by an examination of the statutory constructs and judicial interpretations of termination of parental rights (TPR) and custody statutes in cases where a child is conceived as a result of rape or exposed to ongoing IPV. Cases are utilized to examine how courts have interpreted parental rights statutes where a child is conceived as a result of rape. Additionally, a hypothetical case is discussed to explore arguments that may be advanced in TPR cases where children are exposed to ongoing IPV. The Article finds that although there are inherent problems in enacting statutes to terminate parental rights in cases involving rape or IPV, legislation is also a necessary tool for survivors. Model legislation is proposed for termination of parental rights in cases where a child is conceived as a result of a sexual offense or when a child is exposed to ongoing IPV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Primary prevention focuses on lowering incidences of emotional problems and promoting positive mental health where no special difficulty is indicated. A need exists for counselors to develop the special skills to carry out primary prevention strategies. Skills include educational skills, program development skills, and change agent skills. (Author/RC)

Groups of students (grades 3 through 7) in the Virginia Beach Program for the Gifted and Talented participated in a series of group process activities designed to elicit and codify the characteristics they felt were essential to the successful teacher of the gifted. (SB)

Warns that counselors are sometimes disoriented by the massive variety of approaches to the helping process. Employs a developmental scheme outlined by William Perry in 1970 to interpret some of the typical cognitive transitions that can occur among counselor trainees who struggle with diversity. (Author/JAC)

One of the issues raised by Lawrence Stone's milestone work, The Family, Sex an Marriage in England, 1500-1815, was the significance of Lord Hardwicke's Act in 1753, which banned the [...]