Advocacy for English Language Learners and the Role of Interpreters to Assist Counselors

This paper focuses on addressing issues in advocating for clients whose native languages are not English. As immigrants and other English language learners continue to come to the United States, counselor educators and supervisors have opportunities to encourage their bilingual or multilingual counselor education students to become professional clinical mental health interpreters to better serve the needs of such individuals. The authors argue that counselor education programs have opportunities to prepare students and provide the knowledge, abilities, and skills necessary to work successfully with language diverse clients.