The authors suggest that the career assessment of ethnic minority women presents some special challenges for the career counselor. We contend that multicultural counseling should become a part of the career counseling process. The authors present a Career Counseling Decision Tree, a Multicultural Career Counseling Checklist for Counselors and a Career Checklist for Clients. It is hoped that these assessment instruments will facilitate the career assessment of ethnic minority women.

The field of career development lacks a generally accepted assessment protocol for women of color. This lack is fueled by the breadth of the definition of the category, women of color. In this article, we limit the category to African American, Asian American, Hispanic or Latina American, and Native American women living in the United States. While acknowledging significant within-group and between-group differences among these women, the authors look at the components of the career development literature related to women and various ethnic and racial groups. The authors review and critique the Ward and Bingham (1993) and the Fouad and Bingham (1995) models and discuss ways to expand these existing models. This discussion is then used to suggest a four-step process to career assessment for women of color.There is no well researched, well publicized career assessment instrument for women of color. We are unaware of any assessment processes that are generally accepted for the accurate assessment of the career development or career behavior of women of color. Nor are we sure that there should be such an instrument or process, because the term women of color implies a definable group of people. The breadth of the category would include the majority of women in the world. To make this discussion somewhat more meaningful, we limit the group to women in the United States who are described

The authors present a group format for addressing the needs of students who are at the developmental stage of separating from their families of origin.

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