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That one course: two surveys on multicultural counseling curriculum

  • Trina Redmond-Matz ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Kathleen Jocoy ORCID logo and Paul C. Bernhardt ORCID logo
Published/Copyright: November 27, 2024

Abstract

We surveyed multicultural counseling training practices in graduate level counseling programs in the United States in 2009 and 2020. The initial 2009 investigation focused on masters’ level programs and the characteristics of the respondents’ institutions, counseling programs, and multicultural counseling class (es). Another slightly shorter survey was fielded in 2020 and solicited participation from both masters and doctoral level instructors. Both surveys included questions about the nature of the multicultural counseling curriculum and the instructors’ experiences related to multicultural counseling preparation and teaching. We found while few instructors indicated the presence of more than one multicultural counseling course, broad categories of multicultural issues have been covered in these courses. Skills training, when present, in the form of counseling role-play, appears to be rare and short for most instructors. European American males were in the statistical minority of multicultural counseling instructors, despite representing a large percentage of the counseling population.


Corresponding author: Trina Redmond-Matz, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Frostburg State University, 101 Braddock Road, Frostburg, MD, 21532, USA, E-mail:

Funding source: Frostburg State University Faculty Development Grant

Award Identifier / Grant number: (F2020-019)

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Received: 2023-09-05
Accepted: 2024-04-23
Published Online: 2024-11-27

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