Multicultural Training in APA-Approved Counseling Psychology Programs: A Survey

Forty-nine directors of APA-approved counseling psychology programs returned surveys (80% return rate) concerning the extent to which multicultural issues were addressed in coursework, practica, and research; numbers of faculty in multicultural teaching, supervision, research, and professional development; pressures to develop multicultural curricula and research; and numbers of ethnic minorities. Forty-three programs have at least 1 multicultural course; 31 have units in other courses; 29 have a multicultural course requirement; and in 22 programs, students may create a subspecialty. Although junior faculty were significantly more involved in all areas of multicultural training, where more senior faculty were involved, there was less pressure to increase multicultural coursework, more multicultural courses were required, and a subspecialty was more available.