The Relationship Between Educational and Demographic Variables and Supervisor's Multicultural Counseling Competencies

Abstract

A survey to investigate the level of multicultural counseling competencies of 250 randomly selected supervisors yielded a 34% response rate. The level of multicultural counseling competencies was collected using the Multicultural Counseling Inventory (MCI) and a form requesting demographic and educational information. Some of the findings were: (a) there was a moderate significant relationship between single course training (College Semester Courses and < 4-Hour Workshops) and the MCI score, (b) single course training (2-Day Workshops and 4-Hour Workshops) had a moderate significant relationship with multicultural awareness, and (c) infusion courses (Courses Integrated into the Curriculum) had a moderate significant relationship on counseling skills.