It is argued that the article by Mowrer and McCarver (2002) misrepresents Ramirez's work by making assumptions based on an incomplete definition of multicultural identity and by inferring that multicultural psychotherapy can serve as a cure-all for psychopathology. It is shown that the authors did not test Ramirez's model, but instead merely used his conceptual framework to develop and test their own measure of multicultural perspective.
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