Race/Ethnicity and Multicultural Competence Among School Counselors: Multicultural Training, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Color-Blind Racial Attitudes
Project LEARN Category
L- Listen
E- Educate
A - Acknowledge
R - Respond
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
Racism
Activism
Training
Article Details
Chao, R. C. (2013). Race/Ethnicity and Multicultural Competence Among School Counselors: Multicultural Training, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Color-Blind Racial Attitudes. Journal of Counseling & Development, 91(2), 140–151. https://doi-org.ezproxy.monmouth.edu/10.1002/j.1556-6676.2013.00082.x
Article Abstract
This study tested a model that links race/ethnicity, multicultural training, racial/ethnic identity (REI), color-blind racial attitudes (CoBRA), and multicultural counseling competence (MCC) among school counselors. The author examined whether multicultural training significantly moderated the association between race/ethnicity and MCC. School counselors’ REI was found to mediate this moderated association. A 3-way interaction among race/ethnicity, training, and CoBRA revealed that White and racial/ethnic minority school counselors had the lowest MCC scores when they had limited training and higher CoBRA.