The classical approach to multicultural counselling laid an emphasis on an emic approach. This approach came up with the growth of cross-cultural counselling in the early 1960 and early 1970’s and was meant to help people of racial minorities. As pine and colleagues (1972) argued, clients from minority groups were not adequately served by mental health establishment. [Das, 1995]. However, the approach was mainly culture specific and it had endorsed on techniques that has raised lots of concerns. Patterson (1996) argued that the description of the various groups were only generalizations whereby they were describing only the modal(abstract average) of the person, the assumption regarding the characteristic regarding ethnic minority groups led
