“…In general, traditional theories of counseling and psychotherapy have ignored nonwhite ethnic groups (Patterson, 1980;Smith, 1981), while, on the other hand, cross-cultural approaches are suggesting that each counselor become an expert on the cultural ways of counseling strategies for each ethnic group and sometimes its subethnic groups such as particular Spanish cultures, Indian tribes, or Asian nationalities (Atkinson, Morten, & Sue, 1983;Pedersen, Lonner, & Draguns, 1976). Although cross-cultural efforts have provided much understanding and many useful applications for the practitioner in the field, we herewith recommend this beginning toward a theory that offers an economical alternative in terms of multicultural applicability and cross-cultural generalizability.…”