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Multicultural approaches in psychotherapy: A rejoinder.

2010; American Psychological Association; Volume: 58; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1037/a0022222

1939-2168

Jesse Owen, Mark M. Leach, Bruce E. Wampold, Emil Rodolfa,

Psychological Testing and Assessment

In this rejoinder, the authors address several issues raised by R. L. Worthington and F. R. Dillon (2011) and C. R. Ridley and M. Shaw-Ridley (2011) regarding (a) the measurement of multicultural competencies (MCCs), (b) sampling considerations in multicultural research, and (c) the conceptual frame of multicultural psychotherapy research. The authors challenge the wisdom of exploring MCCs in psychotherapy research and provide a different framework to understand therapists' multicultural effectiveness with clients based on their cultural race/ethnicity. Additionally, the concept of therapists' multicultural orientation or approach is introduced to illuminate the process of aligning with clients about salient cultural issues in psychotherapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).