Discourse represents the languages, ideas, and images that together shape one's understanding of the world. In counseling, discourse determines clinical practice. The authors posit that dominant discourse in counseling promotes an intrapsychic status quo that discounts the relationship between individuals and their environment, which often leads…

This article explores factors historically and currently associated with dropout from counseling services by low-income Latino clients and the organizational barriers that continue to prevent Latinos from staying in the counseling relationship. Interventions and strategies that decrease dropout rates from counseling services by low-income Latinos…

Examines "historical hostility" (a pattern of responses that many African Americans exhibit) and how it may stem from prolonged subjection to inferior treatment in American society. Explores the impact of historical hostility on the counseling relationship, offers suggestions for diagnosing it, and presents some intervention strategies.…

This article reviews selected literature on the topics of bilingual and multicultural counseling and supervision and provides a framework for understanding salient issues in the delivery of bilingual services. It also presents practical interventions and ideas for future empirical work in this area.