Forty-nine directors of APA-approved counseling psychology programs returned surveys i return rate) concerning the extent to which multicultural issues were addressed in coursework, practica, and research; numbers of faculty in multicultural teaching, supervision, research, and professional development; pressures to develop multicultural curricula and research; and numbers of ethnic minorities. Forty-three programs have at least 1 multicultural course; 31 have units in other courses; 29 have a multicultural course requirement; and in 22 programs, students may create a subspecialty. Although junior faculty were significantly more involved in all areas of multicultural training, where more senior faculty were involved, there was less pressure to increase multicultural coursework, more multicultural courses were required, and a subspecialty was more available. HOPE I. HILLS received her doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986. After receiving her PhD, she was appointed to the counseling psychology faculty in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and the University Counseling Center at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she taught the first multicultural counseling course to be offered there. She is currently a consultant to business, focusing on human resource development, with Farr Associates, Inc. in Greensboro, North Carolina. ANNE L. STROZIER received her master's degree in African American studies from Boston University in 1970 and her PhD from the University of Missouri in 1989. She is currently the director of the Center for Alcohol and Substance Abuse Research and Prevention in the Counseling Center at the University of South Florida. She provides prevention programming for students, faculty, and staff and creates linkages for faculty involved in substance abuse research throughout the university.
A multivariate categorization scheme for classifying clients' presenting problems was empirically developed. Six hundred and eleven clients who sought services at a university counseling center completed the Computerized Assessment System for Psychotherapy Evaluation and Research (L. McCullough & A. D. Farrell, 1983). Descriptive statistics, cluster analysis, cluster differentiation by external variables, and stability of cluster solutions across subsamples are presented. Nine clusters of clients with different types of presenting problems that were stable across subsamples were identified. This multivariate approach provides a more complex assessment of clients' presenting problems that may have implications for case disposition, therapeutic interventions, prevention interventions, and research pertaining to coping, help seeking, and therapeutic outcomes.
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