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Multicultural Career Counseling: A National Survey of Competencies and Practices
Author(s) -
Vespia Kristin M.,
Fitzpatrick Mary E.,
Fouad Nadya A.,
Kantamneni Neeta,
Chen YungLung
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2010.tb00130.x
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , competence (human resources) , cultural competence , psychology , career counseling , medical education , counseling psychology , clinical psychology , applied psychology , medicine , pedagogy , social psychology
Career counselors' multicultural competence has not been widely investigated. In this study, a national sample of 230 career counselors completed an online survey that included measures of career counseling self‐efficacy and multicultural counseling competence. Beyond these self‐report instruments, counselors responded to open‐ended items that requested specific examples of their actual multicultural counseling practices. Results indicated that counselors rated themselves as multi‐culturally competent, but those ratings were more closely linked to general career counseling self‐efficacy than to external evaluations of their self‐reported multicultural counseling practices. Findings also reinforced the importance of training and experience in developing multicultural competence.