Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Multicultural awareness as a generic competence for counseling -- Ethics, competence, and other professional issues in culture-centered counseling / Paul B. Pedersen -- Universal and cultural aspects of counseling and psychotherapy / Juris G. Draguns -- Ethnocultural considerations and strategies for providing counseling services to Native American Indians / Joseph E. Trimble, Pamela Jumper Thurman -- Black identity : a repertoire of daily enactments / William E. Cross, Jr., Lakesha Smith, Yasser Payne -- Counseling Asian Americans / Mitchell T. Maki, Harry H.L. Kitano --Counseling the Latina/o : a guiding framework for a diverse population / J. Manuel Casas, Melba J.T. Vasquez, Christopher A. Ruiz de Esparza -- Revisiting gender issues in multicultural counseling / L. Sunny Hansen, Elizabeth M.P. Gama, Amy K. Harkins -- Counseling international students and sojourners / Frederick T.L. Leong, Elayne L. Chou -- Counseling and psychotherapy with refugees / Fred Bemak, Rita Chi-Ying Chung -- Counseling individuals from marginalized and underserved groups / Patricia Arredondo -- Cross-cultural gerontological counseling : current models and common issues / Carrie L. Hill, Susan J. Eklund -- Spirituality in counseling across cultures : many rivers to the sea / Mary A. Fukuyama, Todd D. Sevig -- Health psychology in multiethnic perspective / Frances E. Aboud, Marjorie A. Rabiau -- Putting cultural empathy into practice / Charles R. Ridley, Sharranya Udipi -- Cognitive-behavioral approaches to counseling across cultures : a functional analytic approach for clinical applications / Junko Tanaka-Matsumi, H. Nick Higginbotham, Robert Chang -- Appraisal and assessment in cross-cultural counseling / Walter J. Lonner, Farah A. Ibrahim -- School counselors : professional origins in cross-cultural counseling / Susanna A. Hayes, Arleen C. Lewis -- Research perspectives in cross-cultural counseling / Joseph G. Ponterotto, Catarina I. Costa, Allison Werner-Lin -- Afterword. The future of counseling across cultures.