Cross-cultural issues in counseling and therapy have been a major topic of interest in recent years. It has drawn people of different ethnic backgrounds together However, this has often come at a cost to minority communities, due to inappropriate or misleading conclusions further stigmatizing members of the communities. To examine the feelings of ethnic-minority researchers about the impact of White researchers investigating cross-cultural issues, Ponterotto organized a symposium addressing this topic at the l990 American Psychological Association Convention. The present article is a summary of what transpired at the symposium. It concludes with four lessons to be drawn from the whole topic of minority and majority researchers investigating ethnic-minority populations and other cross-cultural issues.
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