ACHIEVING ETHNIC PARITY IN COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY

With the increasing diversification of the population comes an increas ed need for ethnic minority psychologists. Most counseling psychology programs will have to dramatically increase the numbers of ethnic mino rity students they enroll and faculty they hire to achieve parity and meet the need for more ethnic minority counseling psychologists in the future. This article describes the preconditions and strategies neede d to recruit to select, and to support ethnic minority students and fa culty in counseling psychology programs.