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AMCD commissioned the first edition of the MCC (Sue et al., 1992) to illustrate the tasks, responsibilities, and functions of professional counselors to uphold the values and standards of multicultural practices. The integration of inclusive values helped meet the needs of diverse communities, and professional counselors took more active steps to help eradicate social conditions that persistently impeded client and student trajectories toward optimal wellness across the life span. Implementing the MCC (aspects developed from the tripartite model consisting of Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs, and Skills) fostered a sense of attending to client, student, community, and public welfare while supporting professional counselors in successfully bridging the gaps in their own multicultural practice. The MCC gave professional counselors a launching point to address issues related to race and culture in their work settings, to further examine their individual roles in cross-cultural counseling, and to consider strategies for advocating for clients from various marginalized groups (Sue et al., 1992).

The early stages of the MCC marked an innovative and courageous step in both counseling practice and counselor education (Sue et al., 1992). Numerous counseling researchers began to establish measurements to assess effective multicultural counseling practice. The MCC highlighted the importance and responsibility of counseling leaders to serve as multiculturally sensitive practitioners and to ethically integrate multiculturalism into their leadership and advocacy efforts. Counseling leadership began to magnify multiculturalism, which established a pathway to a professional counseling identity that was distinct from that of other helping professions (Lee, 2012). Thus, it is imperative for counseling leaders to recognize and integrate the history and core tenets of the MCC to broaden their knowledge and scope of culturally responsive practices.