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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

multicultural training, counseling, psychological literature

College

David O. McKay School of Education

Department

Counseling Psychology and Special Education

Abstract

The past two decades have seen a proliferation in the amount of publications on multicultural counseling. For example, over 1000 published reports investigating multicultural counseling and the cultural contexts of psychology have appeared in psychological literature since 1995. Many of these studies have identified serious flaws in traditional methods of helping minority populations with emotional or psychological disturbances, while demonstrating that alternative “culturally sensitive” methods can improve treatment outcomes. Although the sudden proliferation of literature on multicultural counseling clearly indicates growing popular interest in the topic, responsible scientific practice dictates that any body of literature should be systematically evaluated and synthesized to inform future research efforts and extant theory (Cooper, 1998). Because no such systematic evaluation of literature currently exists, there is a clear and pressing need for a meta-analytic review on the topic of multicultural counseling.

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