Is it truly important to “internationalize” counseling psychology? If so, how can we best do this? This reaction to Leong and Ponterotto (2003 [this issue]) documents four general points about international psychology today—its origins, growth, ethnocentrism, and diversity—and relates these to their bold and comprehensive proposal to internationalize counseling psychology in the United States.
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