ABSTRACT
With the increasing cultural diversity of the population in the United States (Triandis, Dunnette, & Hough, 1994), more and more counseling and clinical psychologists will encoun ter culturally different clicnts in their practice (e.g., see Pedersen, Draguns, Lonner, & Trimble, 1989; Sue & Sue, 1990). In keeping with this development, many training programs are beginning to offer specialized training for their students in providing counseling and psychotherapy for these clients. Yet, despite these parallel trends during the last decade, relatively little progress has been made in the devel opment of theories and models for counseling the culturally different. With a few exceptions, such as midrange models about racial and cultural identity (e.g., Atkinson, Morten, & Sue, 1989; Cross, 1991; Helms, 1993) and acculturation (e.g., Berry, 1980; Padillla, 1980), few integrative theoretical models have been offered to the field. Comprehensive and integrative models for cross-cultural counseling are begin ning to emerge but they are few and far between (e.g., Sue, Pedersen, & Ivey, in press). The purpose of the present article is to remedy this situation by providing an integrative model for cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy.
