Multicultural Encounters Case Narratives from a Counseling Practice

One day when I was a student in graduate school, the professor asked the class to discuss whether there was enough culture and race in our counseling psychology curriculum. To my surprise, several classmates claimed that since we had a cross-racial counseling course, there was sufficient attention given to these issues. I countered that, other than the minorities, few students took this course, and voiced my feeling that issues of culture and race needed to be integrated into every class. The discussion solidified my position as an advocate of the centrality of cultural concerns in counseling and my ardent pursuit of clinical training, education, and research in this area....