Counselor educators and supervisors are required to evaluate students' personal behaviors and clinical skills relative to their effect on professionally accepted standards of practice. Sometimes, interrupting the student's studies or even dismissing the student from the counseling program is necessary. However, legal challenges to dismissal that are based on interpersonal or clinical incompetence require sound systematic academic evaluation and adherence to procedural and substantive due process. An examination of professional competency from both counselor education and legal perspectives, an evaluation procedure and process, and a case description in which a student legally challenged a dismissal are presented.

Narrative approaches to teaching multicultural counseling can assist students in integrating course content with a sense of self. Narrative teaching strategies follow a postmodern view of learning-that is, that truth is constructed through the interaction of participants. Justification for narrative approaches to teaching multicultural counseling and narrative are introduced.Los enfoques narrativos para enseiiar la consejeria multicultural pueden ayudar a 10s estudiantes a integrar el contenido del curso con su sentido de ser. Las estrategias de la enseiianza narrativa siguen un pandrama postmoderno de aprendizaje-que considera que la verdad se construye por la interaccidn de participantes. La justificacidn para enfoques narrativos para enseiiar la consejeria multicultural y la narrativa se introducen. s the population of the United States becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, increased attention is being given to counselors' and

The number of Mexican Americans in the United States continues to grow at a rapid rate. As these numbers increase, so does the likelihood that Mexican Americans will eventually come into direct contact with the health care system. Mexican Americans with traditional Mexican attitudes, values, and behaviors encounter barriers as they attempt to access medical and rehabilitative care. Issues such as acculturation, language, family, interdependence, attitudes toward authority, and time orientation are some of the areas that may present challenges to rehabilitation staff. Psychologists working in health care facilities who have the cultural competence to intervene effectively with the Mexican American patient can play an important role in helping to remove some of these barriers. Specific suggestions for working with Mexican American patients are offered.Understanding culturally diverse populations is important for psychologists in any setting. However, rehabilitation psychologists "have yet to systematically approach these issues in an informed manner" (Uswatte & Elliott, 1997, p. 61). Although the Hispanic population is one of the fastest growing in the United States, it has not received adequate attention in the rehabilitation literature.

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