In forensic rehabilitation counseling practices and the ‎competency crisis, action research can be viewed as a form of advocacy and ‎agency for both the field and the consumer (inmates and offenders) because it ‎leads to understanding and learning new ways of classification, diagnosis and ‎treatment planning, ‎self-knowledge, insight, awareness, program evaluation, ‎and continued research in the field of corrections and counseling.‎ Results from ‎standardized research analysis can provide data leading to new and important ‎‎discoveries. In working toward agency and advocacy clinical reasoning and ‎clinical judgement are called upon in the process by which counselors and ‎other clinicians collect cues, ‎process information, understand the problems in ‎the field, new situations, and can better ‎plan and implement interventions, ‎evaluate outcomes, and reflect on and learn ‎from the process. Even if the risks ‎of research may cause error and biases. The role of the research project in ‎relation to advocacy and agency is served by the future licensed professional ‎counselor who is not yet required to study forensic counseling aspects to gain a ‎‎general understanding of processes. Currently, unhelpful classifications in place ‎separating what an LPC can do with a forensic client, and what a rehabilitation ‎counselor can do. As organizations such as the department of corrections, and ‎counselors in this field, they most likely ‎work with offender populations, as do ‎rehabilitation counselors whose task is to assess and ready ‎parolees for ‎vocational reintegration. Making efforts to find more and better diagnostic and ‎treatment planning will provide information about ‎the nature and source of ‎abnormal behavior and classify the behavioral pattern within ‎an accepted ‎diagnostic system to benefit more high recidivism clients by giving them ‎resources of rehabilitation and more training for counselors to offer such. Their ‎remediation and treatment needs will have a more positive effect. This ‎eventually leads to benefits for the counselor who now has more self-‎Knowledge, insight, and awareness in their field to be a catalyst for decision-‎making, ‎helping clients and the infrastructures in forensics to better understand ‎their own skills and abilities in relationship to the world outside corrections. As ‎a tool of program evaluation ‎of social programs, we can find out more about the ‎impact of providing corrections behavioral health with training ‎in CBT, DBT, ‎Trauma care, etc. Finally, as researchers look for newer standardized testing ‎measures, they will provide data leading to new and important ‎discoveries. The ‎challenges a counselor researcher faces may include narrowing down the data to ‎ask the right questions in research. The terms of research are vast and can be ‎less formal and ongoing processes, or more formal, time-limited service. ‎Likewise, the process of gathering information can be overwhelming depending ‎on the data being sought. In a more comprehensive, informal process over ‎period, this will usually involve multi-‎disciplinary team members who work to ‎identify individual characteristics, rehabilitation solutions, education, training, ‎‎and placement needs. There is a set system in place for forensic rehabilitation, ‎which does not work, yet people are afraid to change. The basis for planning ‎forensic rehabilitation is presently focused on career development, education, ‎‎and transition programs. While it is constructive to provide individuals with ‎insight into vocational and career potential who will benefit from that research ‎depends. No matter who the research benefits, it should be done with ethics and ‎principles which are humanistic, emphasizing individual uniqueness and ‎attention to personal ‎needs and situations, therapeutic to reduce anxiety and ‎encourage growth by providing many ‎opportunities for self-discovery and ‎learning, and holistic, while it regards an entire person in all relevant ‎environments. Advocacy and agency are provided if research is done with ‎respect and empowerment in mind.‎