Culturally Sensitive Mentoring for Asian International Students in Counseling Psychology

The Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 895-915

  Park Saltzman, Jeeseon ^a   Wada, Kaori ^b   Mogami, Tamiko ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asian international students; counseling psychology programs; culturally sensitive mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863896724     PISSN: 00110000     EISSN: 15523861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011000011429831     Document Type: Article

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