As the population in the United States becomes more diverse, professionals who conduct counseling and provide other services to clients need to become more skilled in counseling across cultures. In an effort to broaden the scope of training for counseling psychology graduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University, the psychology faculty added a multicultural counseling prepracticum course to its curriculum. This article focuses on the value of having such a course for counselors in training; we offer suggestions for teaching a multicultural prepracticum course based on our experience.
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