The Relationship Between Counselor Trainees' Perceptions of their Multicultural Counseling Competencies and that of their Multicultural Counseling Instructor
Open AccessThis non-experimental, quantitative, ex-post facto survey research examined the relationship between counselor trainees' perception of their multicultural counseling competence and that of their instructor's multicultural competencies following a multicultural counseling course. A nationwide sample of counselor trainees currently or recently enrolled in a multicultural counseling course accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP) was used. The data from 141 participants were analyzed utilizing hierarchical regression. As individual predictors, the counselor trainees' perception of their instructor's cultural competence and a perceived ethnic match were both shown not to influence students' perception of their cultural competence; the relationship between counselor trainees' perception of their instructor's multicultural counseling competence and a perceived ethnic match did predict counselor trainees' perceived multicultural counseling competence. Counselor trainees' perception of their program's cultural ambiance was a significant predictor of both counselor trainees' perception of their own cultural competence and that of their instructor's. Classroom cultural ambiance was found to significantly predict counselor trainees' perceptions of instructor's cultural competence but it did not significantly predict counselor trainees' perception of their own cultural competence. The findings from the current study has important implications for how multicultural instruction is best structured for counselor educators and counselor trainees.
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