Behavioral science helping professionals are ethically obligated to achieve cultural
competence in their work with clients. The rapid rise of the minority population in the United …

With the influx of immigrants into the United States, there has been a continual increase in
diversity, both racially and ethnically (US Department of Health & Human Services, 2001). In …

Purpose–The population of the USA consists of a culturally diverse mix of individuals, many
of them recent immigrants, from a wide range of ethnic and racial groups. Given an …

Background. Increasing diversification of the United States population has highlighted the
need for mental health professionals to gain competence in crosscultural counseling …

I am pleased that this issue of the Winter Roundtable Forum is devoted to cultural
competence. Cultural competence has been a topic of concern in counseling psychology …

Changing demographics require human service workers to become more multiculturally
competent. Using the multicultural counseling competencies as a foundation, the presenters …

Literature on cross‐cultural counseling has emphasized differences between groups and
the need to develop culture‐specific techniques. Lacking a coherent conceptual framework …

Current multicultural training models may be limited in helping counselors to acquire cultural
competencies needed for effective interventions with culturally diverse clients in global …

The advancement of a more global perspective in counseling field during the past two
decades has been facilitated by the awareness of ethnocentric biases of counseling theory …

For the past 40 years, the helping professions have attempted to address the uniqueness of
therapeutic relationships that involve clients and counsellors of different cultures …