In A Multicultural Perspective In Counseling And Psychotherapy

With social diversity and the impaction of postmodernism, the cultural limitations of the traditional counseling and therapy is exposed .So counseling profession confront with professional crisis. Multicultural counseling and therapy is trying to complement the cultural factors ignored by traditional counseling and therapy.Theory of multicultural counseling and therapy recounstructs the practice, model, reseach measures of traditional counseling and therapy. First, it redefinites the competency that should be owned by counselor in the multicultural society. In addition, it redefinites how to train the counselor and how to supervise the counseling process.Second, multicultural assumption plays an important part in the counseling model .Under its influnce, traditional counseling and therapy adopts the indigenous helping measures. Finally,theory of multicultural advocates that we should increase the cultural validity in quantitive reserch and compound quantitive reserch and qualititive reserch in reserches.As a factor of cultural turning in psychology, multicultural counseling and therapy induces the thinking about influnce to psychology derived from the cultural.lt shows the possibility to combine culture and psychology in psychological reserches.