Summary Unit 4 consultation and advocacy.docx COUN 5004 Unit 4: Consultation and Advocacy COUN 5004-Survey Research Human Development Professional Counseling The roles of consultation and advocacy play an important role in field of counseling. In the field of

Unit 4 consultation and COUN 5004 Unit 4: Consultation and Advocacy COUN 5004-Survey Research Human Development Professional Counseling The roles of consultation and advocacy play an important role in field of counseling. In the field of Marriage and Family Counseling, both can be used and deciphering the appropriate situations in which to use them is also of importance. Knowing when to provide expert advice, and when to be the voice for someone that is too afraid or unable to speak for themselves in a situation can be life or death. For example, if a therapist is providing counseling to a family member that is in an abusive situation and the family member may be unable and/or unwilling to testify in a legal situation. It will be left to the counselor to expose the truth of the situation, and explain why a divorce should be granted, or the abused family member should be removed from the situation. Otherwise,