Examining multicultural counseling competence and race-related attitudes among white marital and family therapists.
This study investigates the relative contributions of social desirability attitudes, previous number of multicultural counseling courses taken, and racism and White racial identity attitudes together in predicting marital and family therapists' self-reported multicultural counseling competence. Results revealed that, when controlling for social desirability attitudes and the number of multicultural courses taken, racism and White racial identity attitudes in consort accounted for a significant amount of the variance in self-perceived multicultural counseling competence. Implications for marital and family therapy training, practice, and research are discussed.
Constantine
M G
MG
Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street, Box 92, New York, NY 10027, USA. mc816@columbia.edu
Juby
H L
HL
Liang
J J
JJ
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003376:Counseling / Q000592:standards*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008388:Marital Therapy / Q000592:standards; D011361:Professional Competence; D012928:Social Desirability; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*; D000078329:Workforce