This article reviews selected psychotherapy and personality models advanced by Black theoreticians and proposes a scheme developed by the author for the incorporation of African and African-American frames of reference into clinical and consultative activities. Facilitative and non- facilitative variables in the implementation of the model are discussed briefly.
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