The extent to which therapists are comfortable discussing clients' cultural identities in
psychotherapy has been considered a valuable component of how therapists integrate …

In a university counseling center sample of 247 clients who were treated by 50 therapists,
we retrospectively examined the association between client ratings of their therapists' …

Attention to cultural factors in counseling is critical, and theories have emerged in
counseling and psychology to describe competence for working with multicultural clients …

The development and initial validation of a client-rated measure of therapist cultural comfort
(the Therapist Cultural Comfort Scale [TCCS]) is reported. The first phase of the study …

In the field of counseling and clinical psychology, the last several decades have been
characterized by a strengthened recognition of the importance of cultural factors in …

A client's cultural experiences and background clearly impact the client–therapist
relationship, the selection of treatments, the formation of the alliance, and the outcome of …

A cultural opportunity is 1 of 3 pillars within multicultural orientation framework; it is defined
as a moment in therapy when aspects of a client's background emerge, which can be deeply …

Psychotherapy clients often hold multiple and varied cultural identities, and it is important for
therapists to attend to the intersectionality of clients' cultural identities, as well as the saliency …

As the mental health professions have sought to ensure that practitioners are culturally
competent and sensitive, they have inadvertently overlooked a critical aspect of multicultural …

In this rejoinder, the authors address several issues raised by RL Worthington and FR Dillon
(see record 2010-26150-001) and CR Ridley and M. Shaw-Ridley (see record 2011-00622 …