Current status of cultural competence advocacy in clinical, school, and counseling psychology

Abstract

The current status of cultural competence advocacy is described within the context of the separate subdisciplines of clinical, school, and counseling psychology. Within each subdiscipline, a brief history of each profession is summarized, followed by a description of the main professional organizations and scholarly outlets that characterize each subdiscipline, a summary of basic roles and functions of practitioners within each subdiscipline, racial/ethnic demographics within each subdiscipline, exposure to racial/ethnic subgroups in practice, and qualitative differences in the nature of cultural competence advocacy within each subdiscipline.