The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of client-counselor working alliance by understanding the effects of acculturation, perceived multicultural competence in counselors, and cultural value conflicts among South Asian women. The study was based on a nonrandom samp…
The purpose of this qualitative multi-case study was to explore the characteristics of ten novice urban schoolteachers who completed a course in multicultural education and had an early field experience in an urban school. This study draws upon the body of literature related to …
Educating a nation of ethnically, racially and linguistically diverse children is one of the many challenges facing teachers and teacher educators. In 1995, 35 percent of the students enrolled in public schools were multicultural 1 students of color (National Center for Educatio…
Despite the elapsed 33 years since the delineation of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (Sue et al., 1982), little is known about factors that may facilitate the development of multicultural competence in counselors and counselor trainees. As a first step toward greater …
Efforts to improve multicultural competence within the field of psychology has been evolving since the civil rights movement; however, progress remains slow. The influence of the history of the United States, White culture, and our current sociopolitical landscape continue to ne…