Summary and Conclusions
The RESPECTFUL Cube identifies 10 domains that act as
cultural lenses through which counselors experience their clients.
Thus, counselor educators need to help counselors-in-training to
assess how differing views of these domains by diverse clients may
affect the counseling process. Secondly, counselor educators need to
help counselors-in-training learn to adapt the 18 counseling skills of
the SCTM by using the RESPECTFUL Cube domains. These
domains can be used as a guide to accommodate clients from diverse
cultural groups. It is time for the counseling profession not only to
recognize multicultural and diversity issues, but to develop
systematic and practical approaches for helping counselors address
and adapt counseling practices with culturally diverse clients.