Reviews evidence and theory on issues related to cultural diversity of child clients in therapy: predictive utility and treatment consequences of ethnic membership, whether treatments should be generic or culture specific, degree of privilege that should be accorded to same-culture therapists, and relative desirability of different modalities of…

This review of the literature addresses scientific and methodological concerns of research with children from various racial and ethnic backgrounds in the United States. It first identifies three major demographic trends: (1) the increasingly multiethnic and multilingual nature of American society; (2) the increasing number of children in poverty;…