an approach to training therapists and counselors that is intended to foster understanding of clients from other cultures and develop multicultural counseling competencies. In the model’s didactic simulation, a trainee therapist or counselor from a particular culture is matched with a three-person team: (a) a procounselor, representing the trainee’s own culture; (b) a coached client, who is hostile or resistant to the trainee, the therapy, or the trainee’s culture; and (c) a catalyst anticounselor, who represents the client’s ethnic group, religion, or other affiliation. The catalyst serves as a bridge of communication and support for the client, and the dynamic among all parties reveals issues, content, and effective approaches to the trainee. See also multicultural therapy. [developed by U.S. psychologist Paul Bodholdt Pedersen (1936– )]