“…Cultural characteristics are essential in the development of personal identity, and the ways these characteristics operate in the individual become a function of the person's personality organization (Herron, f 995;Javier & Camacho-Gingerich, 2004;Javier & Rendon, 1995;Javier & Yussef, 1995). Although Quinones is clearly aware of this complexity and makes clear reference to that effect in the earlier part of her essay, her description of Latino clients tends to focus on recent immigrants who are struggling with social class issues, socially and politically alienated and marginal, and haunted by a history of colonialism that is contributing even today to a chronic and pervasive feeling of inferiority.…”