TO DO, OR NOT TO DO - THAT IS THE QUESTION FOR WHITE CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCHERS

Cross-cultural issues in counseling and therapy have been a major topic of interest in recent years. It has drawn people of different ethnic backgrounds together However this has often come at a cost to minority communities, due to inappropriate or misleading conclusions further stigmatizing members of the communities. To examine the feelings of ethnic-minority researchers about the impact of White researchers investigating cross-cultural issues, Ponterotto organized a symposium addressing this topic at the 1990 American Psychological Association Convention. The present article is a summary of what transpired at the symposium. It concludes with four lessons to be drawn from the whole topic of minority and majority researchers investigating ethnic-minority populations and other cross-cultural issues.