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self-advocacy
self-advocacy Self-advocacy is a person’s active ability to speak up for their own needs, preferences, and rights, especially in interactions with services or institutions.
Self-advocacy is a person’s active ability to speak up for their own needs, preferences, and rights, especially in interactions with services or institutions. In this context, it is part of effective agency and can be reduced when person-in-context barriers make participation and rights-claiming harder.