Roughly 10 years ago, The Counseling Psychologist (TCP), under the editorship of Bruce R. Fretz, devoted its first specialissue to “Cross-Cultural Counseling” This special issue, guest edited by Elsie MJ Smith and Melba JT Vasquez (1985), brought cross-cultural or multicultural counseling to the forefront of training programs nationwide. Over the next decade, the multicultural counseling course would become one of the fastest growing “new course offerings” in training programs (Hollis & Wantz, 1990, 1994). Independent surveys of American Psychological Association (APA)-accredited counseling psychology programs conducted in 1989 (Hills & Strozier, 1992) and 1991 (Quintana & Bernal, 1995) found that 59% and 42% of programs, respectively, required a multicultural counseling course of all program students. The most recent national survey of both APA-accredited and nonaccredited doctoral programs in counseling psychology, conducted in 1995 (Ponterotto, in press), found that 89% of programs required at least one multicultural course. It appears that as we quickly approach the 21st century, multicultural issues will increasingly occupy a central role in training pr0gramS.

After a decade of attention to multicultural counseling, now is an appro-priate time to assess the field's progress in, and emerging directions for, multicultural counseling. I would like to integrate my comments on the major contributions to this TCP issue (Atkinson, Brown, & Casas, 1996; Coleman, 1996; Treviño, 1996) into amore general assessment of our progress in multi-cultural counseling theory and training since the landmark 1985 TCP issue. This brief reaction article is organized along three major topics that reflect the profession's growth in multicultural counseling and that are exemplified by the three major contributions reflected in this issue. I will address Treviño's article within the context of recent theoretical advances, Coleman's article within the context of recent training and evaluation efforts, and Atkinson et al.'s article within the context of ethnic minority representation issues.