Evidence-based school counseling (EBSC)—and any useful way of organizing or thinking about professional practice—is constantly shaped by and in relationship with social and historical contexts. We are in a time of rapid cultural and educational upheaval, with ongoing calls for impactful systems-level social justice and antiracist school counseling (Holcomb-McCoy, 2022; Stickl Haugen, et al., 2022), with a youth mental health crisis (Office of the Surgeon General, 2021), and with a dire need for more school counselors in most parts of the country (Prothero, & Riser-Kositsky, 2022). How can EBSC continue to evolve to be most relevant and useful in these times? This special edition of Professional School Counselor, which consists of articles derived from the 2022 Evidence-based School Counseling Conference (EBSCC, ebscc.org), answers this question.
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