Dr. Sophie Maxis:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "Counselor Education in Technicolor: Recruiting Graduate Students of Color," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2017-01-16 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation. The web site is https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP

The review itself is due 2016-10-08.

If you do not have your username and password for the journal's web site, you can use this link to reset your password (which will then be emailed to you along with your username). https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/login/resetPassword/somaxis?confirm=bda0416506066195b80a1965a72ea119ebe2928cf97fe34bd7e77bb900b7503e%3A1484003571

Submission URL: https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/133

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
Universidad del Valle, Guatemala
etorresrivera@gmail.com



"Counselor Education in Technicolor: Recruiting Graduate Students of Color"

Abstract

The dearth of ethnic diversity in the counseling field requires increased attention to strategies for recruiting graduate students of color. A case study of graduate students of color was conducted to identify factors that encouraged and discouraged them from pursuing careers in counseling. The participants in this study indicated that diversifying the counseling field, exposure to helping professionals, location of the graduate program, lack of student diversity, and program admissions requirements influenced their decision to pursue graduate degrees in counseling. Based on the findings of this study, implications for recruiting graduate students of color into counselor education programs include the need for graduate programs to demonstrate a commitment to diversity, increased clarity in admissions requirements, and providing students with guidance through the admissions process.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP