The Effect of Ethnicity on Multicultural Competence

Abstract

The contribution of ethnicity to counseling students’ multicultural counseling competence (MCC) was revisited and expanded upon by examining differences among and between European American, African American, and Latino counseling students. Results revealed that Latino counseling students self-reported higher multicultural counseling competence than African American and European American counseling students. No difference in multicultural counseling competence was revealed between African American and European American counseling students. Implications for future research and multicultural training are discussed.

Keywords:

• multicultural counseling competence
• ethnicity
• diversity