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Multicultural Christenson, J. (2010). Multicultural considerations. Counseling Today. 51(10), 28-39. This article considers the various multicultural populations that are projected to be present in the United States in increasingly larger proportions within the coming years. The article is structured according to the author conducting interviews with six members of the American Counseling Association (Christenson, 2010, p. 28) to discuss some of the most eminent issues related to counseling individuals from a variety of multicultural groups including American Indians, Arab-Americans, Asian-Americans, African-Americans, and Latinos/Latinas.

There is also one member of the aforementioned group who specifically discusses the ramifications of working within individuals from all of these populations (or some of them), as well as the repercussions of working with those who are categorized into one or more of these groups (including those which may contain some aspect of European-American culture/background). One of the strengths of the article is that it is based on solid empirical evidence.

To that end, it begins by denoting the increasing percentage of the previously mentioned population groups in the near future. Specifically, the article denotes the fact that all of the populations from what have been regarded as historic minority groups are projected to increase by 2050; Latinos are projected to encompass one third of the country's population during this time period while the proportion of the population that is European-American will substantially decline (Christenson, 2010, p. 28). Therefore, the groups that the article includes within multicultural group counseling are highly relevant.

Another strength is that the article utilizes interviews with counselors who are of the same ethnic population as that which they are discussing to include an intimate knowledge of cultural and heritage traits as related to counseling. The most salient weakness of this article is that it does not involve any original research of a quantifiable nature. The individuals who are interviewed provide a qualitative form of data in some measure.

And, to their credit, these are highly experienced professionals who are well versed in the intimacies of the particular population setting with which they are discussing. Still, virtually everything they say is their opinion. The article could have been improved by conducting some original, quantifiable research to buttress the viewpoints of the counselors interviewed. Part IV If I were going to write a follow-up article, I would focus on conducting more research.

In doing so I would more than likely continue to use the qualitative methods that the author of this article used. However, I would interview a lot more subjects, and get a substantially greater amount of data than the author for this article did. In doing so, I could combine qualitative and quantitative methods, by identifying trends from the various interviews. I would focus the interviews on the respective groups that the author of the current article did.

I would merely expand the amount of research in order to more prominently discern trends.