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In 1994, a group of counseling professionals convened to better commit to multiculturalism and broader social justice issues. The group members represented many organizations within ACA, such as AMCD, the Association for Specialists in Group Work, and the National Career Development Association. After numerous meetings with ACA leadership, the group became an organizational affiliate in 1999 and was called Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ; J. Anderson et al., 2015). In 2000, the ACA Governing Council accepted CSJ as an official division of ACA, making it an additional division devoted to the concerns of Black and Brown populations, but with a broader focus than just racism. With social justice as a focal point, CSJ advocates for health care, for access for the disabled, against discrimination of sexual and gender minorities, for immigration, and against economic disparities.

In 2003, CSJ promoted the endorsement of the ACA Advocacy Competencies (Toporek et al., 2009). These competencies laid the groundwork for counselors intervening for systems change. Since 2007, CSJ has partnered with Psychologists for Social Responsibility to publish the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, a leading journal in the field.

In 2015, the ACA Governing Council approved a new set of competencies that blended the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (Sue et al., 1982, 1992) with the Social Justice Counseling Competencies put forth by CSJ. The new competencies, called the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, specifically highlight the intersection of identities and the dynamics of power, privilege, and oppression that influence the counseling relationship. The domains reflect the different factors that lead to multicultural and social justice competence: awareness, client worldview, counseling relationship, counseling, and advocacy interventions (Ratts et al., 2015). See Box 3 for social justice scholars.