The five articles comprising the Major Contribution in this issue are synthesized and serve as the foundation of an ecological model for contextualizing multicultural counseling psychology processes. Specifically, the proposed contextual model outlines the recursive influence of individual and systemic factors on multiple subsystems (i.e., macrosystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and microsystem) influencing human behavior. Implications for multicultural training practices that are grounded in the contextual model as well as recent multicultural counseling literature are provided.
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