The work of many great scholars has proliferated a sizable body of knowledge on the construct of multicultural counseling competence. However, the construct’s operationalization remains obscured, perplexing, and frustrating to practitioners who attempt to translate the scholarship into practice. We identify ten definitional problems that prevent the construct from evolving into a cohesive form that can inform practitioners’ work. These include: an indistinct purpose, culturally general/culturally specific divide, terminological interchange, confusing competency with competence, lack of integration, no definition, ambiguity, equivocation, circular reasoning, and divergence. Furthermore, the three major models of the construct—skills-based, adaptation, and process-oriented—share six limitations. They lack interdependence, prescriptive methods, deep incorporation of culture, coherent designs, conclusive research support, and they are oversimplifications. We call on the community of our fellow scholars to collaborate in reconceptualizing this complex construct into a sound, applicable guide for practitioners’ work with diverse clients.

许多杰出学者的著作激增了关于多元文化咨询能力建设的大量知识。但是，对于试图将奖学金转化为实践的实践者来说，构造的可操作性仍然被遮蔽，困惑和沮丧。我们确定了十个定义性问题，这些问题阻止了结构演变成可以指导从业者工作的凝聚形式。其中包括：目的不明确，文化上普遍/文化上的分歧，术语互换，能力与能力混淆，缺乏整合，没有定义，模棱两可，模棱两可，循环推理和分歧。此外，构造的三个主要模型-基于技能，适应和面向过程-共有六个限制。他们缺乏相互依存的规定性方法，文化的深度融合，连贯的设计，结论性的研究支持，它们过于简单化。我们呼吁我们的学者社区共同协作，将这种复杂的结构重新概念化，成为针对从业者与不同客户进行工作的合理，适用的指南。