ABSTRACT
Counsellor trainees from non-Western cultures (NWC) go through a tremendous transformational process with respect to their life career development. This process seems to encompass several entangling experiences. NWC counsellor trainees have particular experience of intercultural adjustment along with the more general social and economic challenges of our rapidly changing Western culture within a higher education setting. Understanding these three interwoven experiences in one’s life career developmental process remains the central goal of the present study. In responding to this specific research objective it is relevant to review the three major categories of literature which are related to the experiences specified above. These three types of literature include theoretical models and perspectives, and research evidence in the areas of (a) career development, (b) the transition to higher education, and (c) cross-cultural adjustment.
