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Multicultural Counselor Training Experiences: Training Effects and Perceptions of Training Among a Sample of Predominately Hispanic Students
Author(s) -
Dickson Ginger L.,
ArgusCalvo Beverley,
Tafoya Nancy Garcia
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2010.tb00101.x
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , psychology , ethnic group , training (meteorology) , perception , medical education , multicultural education , sample (material) , cognition , cultural competence , applied psychology , clinical psychology , pedagogy , medicine , sociology , chemistry , physics , chromatography , neuroscience , meteorology , anthropology
The effectiveness of multicultural training among a sample of predominately Hispanic counseling students was examined. The results of a series of 2‐factor repeated measures analysis of variance and follow‐up paired‐samples t tests suggest that multicultural training was effective in increasing students' multicultural competencies and in improving their cognitive racial attitudes. Students' affective racial attitudes were not changed. Students' perceptions of their multicultural training suggest that students from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds may experience multicultural training differently and unique life experiences may help explain this difference. Counselor educators may wish to use a variety of training experiences to provide multicultural training that is effective across diverse student populations.