THE COUNSELING PROFESSIONS COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY-SENSITIVE COUNSELING - A CRITICAL REASSESSMENT

The authors pose questions in this article that are intended to stimul ate more effective strategies to ensure gender, racial, and ethic dive rsity in the counseling profession. The first question addresses the i mplications of between-group versus within-group differences for the c ounseling process. The second question examines the need to expand the dialogue across all minorities. The third question asks who should co nduct multicultural research. Various constituencies, including client s, practitioners, counselor educators, scholars, and researchers are a ffected. Inconsistencies are noted between the strategies now being us ed to achieve diversity and the philosophical foundations of the couns eling profession itself. Seven recommendations are made.