Call for Submissions

ACES Social Justice and Human Rights Committee

Social Justice in Counseling Story-Collecting Project

Deadline: June 1, 2009

The ACES' Social Justice and Human Rights Committee announces a call for submissions: Personal narratives about experiences of social justice work in counseling.

The purpose of this project is to collect counselors' narratives of social justice work in action. This collection of social justice narratives will serve as a resource for counselor educators, clinicians, supervisors, and students who are interested in counselors' advocacy in action. Narratives consist of (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Social justice work in which you currently participate as a counselor
• Personal experiences of how you have been affected by counselor advocacy
• Engaging in specific activities as an counselor advocate
• Experiencing advocacy personally and professionally
• Advocating for clients from historically marginalized backgrounds
• Successes and challenges as a counselor advocate
• Negotiating oppressive systems as a counselor advocate
• Managing advocacy identity development as a counselor
• Having "A-ha" moments in counselor advocacy – coming to terms with awareness around social justice advocacy in counseling
• Supporting community-building locally, nationally, and/or internationally as a counselor advocate
• Attending to multiple identities and issues of privilege and oppression

Submission Guidelines

Authors should write in first person and focus on the experiential, practical, and personal aspects of their stories. Using Microsoft Word, narratives should be submitted electronically according to APA (5th ed.) guidelines to the editors listed below. Narratives should be 1000-1500 words. Authors will receive an electronic acknowledgement when their narrative is received. All submissions will be reviewed, and authors will receive a decision by August 1, 2009. Stories will be published on the ACES website and may be compiled into an ACES bound publication at a later date (publication permission in this case will be secured at a later date).

Please email narratives by the deadline of June 1, 2009 to:

Anneliese A. Singh (asingh@uga.edu) and Michael P. Chaney (chaney@oakland.edu)