The current article provides an overview to the cultural accommodation model (CAM) of counseling (Leong & Lee, 2006) that may help guide employment counselors' work. The integrative multidimensional model of cross-cultural counseling (Leong, 1996), a precursor to the CAM, is also reviewed.

This study compared the pattern of relationships among personality, vocational interests, and career exploration within an integrated framework between 369 American and 392 Hong Kong university students. The first hypothesis predicted differential contributions of the universal and indigenous personality dimensions based on the Cross-cultural…

Using the cultural formulations approach to career assessment and career counseling, the current article applies it specifically to Asian American clients. The approach is illustrated by using the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" fourth edition ("DSM-IV") Outline for Cultural Formulations that consists of the following five…

Based on 164 undergraduate business majors, we examined the relationship between satisfaction with major and Holland's vocational interests and with the Big Five and narrow personality traits. Contrary to our hypothesis, enterprising scores were unrelated to major satisfaction. As hypothesized, using ipsative and normative scores, investigative,…

A cross-cultural counseling model has five stages: emergence of career and vocational problems, help-seeking and use of career services, evaluation of problems, career interventions and outcomes. The model addresses recognition and removal of cultural barriers to help-seeking and culturally appropriate methods of diagnosis, assessment, and…

Cross-cultural issues in personality and career assessment include ethnocentrism; the concept of culture; whether personality is culturally constructed; and linguistic, conceptual, scale, and normative equivalencies of assessment instruments across cultures. Research should include broader cultural pools, and counseling must take a cross-cultural…

Explores career issues in a case study of a Chinese immigrant, including cultural issues affecting career counseling. Addresses the need for culturally sensitive skills for both personal counseling and career counseling. (SK)

The purpose of this study was to explore the ethnic differences in family dynamics and career interests of European Americans and Chinese Americans and how these dynamics--cohesion, expressiveness, and conflict--influence one's career interests. Significant ethnic differences in career interests were found. The Chinese Americans' highest career…

Uses the theoretical framework of cultural validity and cultural specificity in career psychology to comment on theoretical and methodological issues raised by two articles on cross-cultural career psychology. Discusses the distinction between etic and emic approaches to cross-cultural research and the role of cultural context in understanding…

Compared incoming international college students (N=215) to United States students (N=1,000) on academic and career needs. Found international students expressed greater academic and career needs than did American students and the rank-ordering of relative importance of these needs was different between the two groups. (Author/ABL)

Proposes a model for examining the challenges of providing career counseling in Asia in terms of prevailing and countervailing forces. The model also suggests a need to avoid a simple importation of Western models of career counseling, which may not be an optimal fit for the Asian cultural context. Instead, the cultural accommodation approach is…

Reports on a case study that explores the culture-related issues of Asian Americans in the workplace. Focuses on a young, second-generation, Chinese-American woman, Jessica Chang, and the employment challenges that Dr. Chang encountered. Discusses her job strategies and some of the ethical dilemmas that she faced. (RJM)

Tests hypotheses proposed by Leong and Chou for understanding the acculturation process among Asian Americans and uses their model to predict potential career adjustment problems encountered by Asians. In Study 1, acculturation was positively linked to job satisfaction. In Study 2, acculturation was found to be positively related to supervisors'…

Over the past few decades there has been a rapid increase in the number of international students coming to study in the United States. While some recent studies have begun to examine the academic and career needs of international students, most of these studies did not directly compare the needs of international students to those of American…

Using Derald Sue's framework for examining counseling process with racial-ethnic minority clients, develops new model to examine career counseling process with Asian Americans in terms of culturally appropriate and inappropriate process and outcomes. Offers recommendations for culturally appropriate career counseling interventions from this…