Similarity and Difference in Multicultural Counseling: Considering the Attraction and Repulsion Hypotheses

The Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 280-298

  Speight, Suzette L ^a   Vera, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0031287790     PISSN: 00110000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011000097252009     Document Type: Article

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