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Hipolito-Delgado, Carlos P.; Lee, Courtland C. – Professional School Counseling, 2007
In this article, the authors provide their reactions to the commentaries of Mitcham-Smith and Schmidt on their study. As Mitcham-Smith and Schmidt in their responses both suggest, it is evident that if professional school counselors are to be successful in facilitating the empowerment of students, they must engage in a self-reflective process…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, School Counselors, Reader Response, Critical Theory
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Hipolito-Delgado, Carlos P.; Lee, Courtland C. – Professional School Counseling, 2007
Borrowing from the legacy of feminist and multicultural theories, various counseling fields have applied portions of empowerment theory to their work with oppressed clients. This article examines the main concepts associated with empowerment theory and provides important implications for professional school counselors.
Descriptors: School Counselors, Critical Theory, Social Action, Personal Autonomy
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Lee, Courtland C. – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1991
Responds to previous article by McWhirter on empowerment in counseling. Asserts that McWhirter's ideas do not necessarily represent radical new thinking about client service delivery. Focusing on multicultural counseling, contends that McWhirter's views have been articulated for more than a decade by scholars writing about the mental health…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Empowerment, Individual Power
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Lee, Courtland C. – Professional School Counseling, 2005
Much has been written in recent years about the concept of empowerment, particularly as it relates to urban youth of color. The author agrees with Bemak et al.'s underlying premise that much of what is written about and practiced with respect to the empowerment of African American youth makes the assumption that counselors somehow empower young…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Urban Youth, Empowerment, Adolescents
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Lee, Courtland C. – Professional School Counseling, 2005
This article explores the nature of professional school counseling in urban settings. An overview of key characteristics of the urban environment and urban schools first provides context for the role of the professional school counselor in such a setting. Second, specific challenges facing urban school counselors are considered. Third, a set of…
Descriptors: Urban Environment, Urban Schools, School Counseling, Rural Schools
Lee, Courtland C. – 2000
As helping professions enter the 21st century and nascent network technologies realize their full potential as therapeutic and educational modalities, it is an ethical and moral imperative that the digital divide be bridged. It is important that those in counseling and related fields take active steps to ensure that cybercounseling is available to…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Advocacy, Community Involvement
Lee, Courtland C. – 2003
This series of five interrelated modules is an update and revision of "Saving the Native Son: Empowerment Strategies for Young Black Males (1996)." It offers specific strategies for empowering young African American males to help them achieve optimal educational and social success. Empowerment is a developmental process by which people who are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Black Education, Black Students