Multicultural Counseling Competence and Training Survey (1) Essays

Multicultural Counseling Competence and Training Survey-Revised Not competent (Not able to perform at this time) Somewhat competent (More training needed) Competent (Able to perform competently) Extremely competent (Able to perform at a high level) 1. My ability to discuss my own ethnic/cultural heritage. 2. My ability to be aware of how my cultural background and experiences have influenced my attitudes about psychological processes. 3. My ability to discuss how my culture has influenced the way I think. 4. My ability to recognize when my attitudes, beliefs, and values are interfering with providing the best services to my students. 5. My ability to verbally communicate my acceptance of students from a culture different from mine. 6. My ability to communicate nonverbally my acceptance of culturally different students. 7. My ability to discuss my family's perspective regarding acceptable and non-acceptable codes-of-conduct. 8. My ability to discuss models of White Racial Identity Development. 9. My ability to define racism. 10. My ability to define prejudice. 11. My ability to define discrimination. 12. My ability to define stereotype. 13. My ability to identify the cultural bases of my communication style. 14. My ability to identify my negative and positive emotional reactions toward persons of other racial and ethnic groups. 15. My ability to identify my reactions that are based on stereotypical beliefs about different ethnic groups. 16. My ability to give examples of how stereotypical beliefs about culturally different persons impact thecounseling relationship. 17. My ability to articulate the possible differences between the nonverbal behavior of the five major ethnic groups(i.e., African/Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, NativeAmerican, European/White). 18. My ability to articulate the possible differences between the verbal behavior of the five major ethnic groups. 19. My ability to discuss the counseling implications for at least two models of racial/ethnic identity development. 20. My ability to discuss within-group differences among ethnic groups (e.g., low SES Puerto Rican student vs. highSES Puerto Rican student). 21. My ability to discuss how culture affects a student's vocational choices. 22. My ability to discuss how culture affects the help-seeking behaviors of students. 23. My ability to discuss how culture affects the manifestations of psychological disorders. 24. My ability to describe the degree to which a counseling approach is appropriate for a specific group of people. 25. My ability to explain how factors such as poverty, and powerlessness have influenced the current conditions of at least two ethnic groups. 26. My ability to discuss research regarding mental health issues among culturally/ethnically different populations. 27. My ability to discuss how the counseling process may conflict with the cultural values of at least two ethnic groups. 28. My ability to list at least three barriers that prevent ethnic minority students from using counseling services. 29. My ability to discuss the potential bias of two assessment instruments frequently used in the schools. 30. My ability to anticipate when my helping style is inappropriate for a culturally different student.