History
Prior to the 1960s: Counselors usually worked in traditional educational settings.
National Defense Education Act of 1958: Federal funding provided for the proliferation of school counselors in elementary, middle and high schools.
The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963: Counselors employed to treat the mental health of clients instead of just those clients who were essentially healthy.
Vietnam War: The amount of federal dollars used to fund school counseling began to dry up and counseling positions within school settings decreased.
Proliferation of the community mental health centers offered counselors new opportunities.
Crisis Intervention: An intense, short-term intervention to help the client who is in crisis.
Advocacy: To plead the cause of a client or group and follow it up with action in support of that cause.