Cross‐Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Historical Perspective, Implications for Research and Training

Abstract

This article examines the development of cross‐cultural and psychotherapy in the United States, and theoretical models and their implications for research and training are reviewed.

Providing effective counselling services to Australia's ethnic minority groups

“…For the past thirty years, the human rights movement has pressured counsellors working with ethnic minority groups, to address cultural issues in counselling and to develop specialised skills to help such clients make choices and to solve their problems within a cultural context (Copeland 1983). However, significant limitations continue to exist, as most literature focuses only on a few prominent cultural groups in the United States, and many professionals place little emphasis on offering a culturally sensitive service (Bimrose and Bayne 1995, p.260;Weinrach and Thomas 1996, p. 474).…”

Psychosocial Development and Black Male Masculinity: Implications for Counseling Economically Disadvantaged African American Male Adolescents

“…Articles, books, monographs, and theoretical reviews related to training issues (Arredondo-Dowd & Gonsalves, 1980;Casas, Ponterotto, & Gutierrez, 1986;Copeland, 1983;Mio, 1989;Pederson, 1988), characteristics of African American culture (Carter, 1991;Cheatham, 1990;Helms, 1984), cross-cultural models (Helms, 1984;Parham & Helms, 1981), clients' preferences for counselors' race (Parham & Helms, 1981;Pomales, Claiborn, & LaFromboise, 1986), and the use of counseling services are some of the many topics that have been investigated (June, 1986;Larrabee, 1986). Articles, books, monographs, and theoretical reviews related to training issues (Arredondo-Dowd & Gonsalves, 1980;Casas, Ponterotto, & Gutierrez, 1986;Copeland, 1983;Mio, 1989;Pederson, 1988), characteristics of African American culture (Carter, 1991;Cheatham, 1990;Helms, 1984), cross-cultural models (Helms, 1984;Parham & Helms, 1981), clients' preferences for counselors' race (Parham & Helms, 1981;Pomales, Claiborn, & LaFromboise, 1986), and the use of counseling services are some of the many topics that have been investigated (June, 1986;Larrabee, 1986).…”

A Multicultural Perspective on Principles of Empirically Supported Interventions

“…Conversely, built directly into the PESI developed by the Division 17 Special Task Group on Empirically Supported Treatments (Wampold et al, 2002) is the provision that research supporting specific interventions for specific problems must also identify the specific populations with which they are effective. This is exactly what multicultural researchers and theorists have been recommending for many years (e.g., Copeland, 1983;Pedersen, Lonner, & Draguns, 1976;Sue & Sue, 1990). We believe that there are important sociodemographic forces (e.g., diversification of the U.S. population) that, if ignored, could undermine the viability of intervention research (see Hall, 1997).…”