MULTICULTURAL TRAINING - REEXAMINATION, OPERATIONALIZATION, AND INTEGRATION

The Multicultural Program Development Pyramid is a five-tiered framewo rk outlining stages of multicultural counseling training (MCT) program development. The pyramid is intended to serve as a guide to help prog ram developers formulate their own unique MCT programs. The pyramid la ys out a path of critical choice points in MCT development, beginning with the generation of an explicit philosophy of training and proceedi ng through the stages of identifying training objectives, selecting in structional strategies, choosing from among several proposed program d esigns, and evaluating the program. Use of the pyramid encourages the critical examination of a full range of choices at each stage. Implica tions of the pyramid for current MCT, the scientist-practitioner model , and the future of MCT research and development are discussed.