Exploring the association between color-blind racial ideology and multicultural counseling competencies.
The authors examined the association between color-blind racial ideology and self-reported multicultural counseling competencies in 130 applied psychology students and mental health workers. Results from 1 sample (n = 79) indicated that greater levels of color-blind racial ideology as measured by the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (Neville, Lilly, Duran, Lee, & Browne, 2000) were (1) related to lower self-reported multicultural counseling awareness and knowledge as measured by the Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale (MCKAS; Ponterotto, Gretchen, Utsey, Rieger, & Austin, 2002) and (2) accounted for a significant amount of variance in MCKAS scores over and above that explained by self-reported multicultural training, social desirability, and participant race. Findings from another sample also provided empirical support for the link between higher color-blind racial ideology and lower multicultural case conceptualization ability (n = 51), after controlling for the influence of the number of multicultural course(s) taken. Implications of the findings and future directions are provided.
Neville
Helen
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Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. hneville@uiuc.edu
Spanierman
Lisa
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Doan
Bao-Tran
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003376:Counseling; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011057:Politics; D011361:Professional Competence; D012928:Social Desirability; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires