Multicultural Career Counseling: A National Survey of Competencies and Practices |
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| Authors: | Kristin M Vespia Mary E Fitzpatrick Nadya A Fouad Neeta Kantamneni Yung‐Lung Chen |
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| Institution: | 1. Human Development and Psychology, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay;2. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee;3. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska—Lincoln;4. Social Science Research Center, National Science Council, Taiwan, Republic of China |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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