Relationship between multicultural experiences and multicultural counseling competencies among Malaysian counselor trainees
The multicultural counseling course attended by counselor trainees is expected to enrich their multicultural experience through the academic environment, as they come from different backgrounds and personal multicultural experiences. While most multicultural counseling courses focus on the three...
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Institute of Advanced Science Extension
2023
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109055/ https://www.science-gate.com/IJAAS/2023/V10I10/1021833ijaas202310021.html |
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| Summary: | The multicultural counseling course attended by counselor trainees is
expected to enrich their multicultural experience through the academic
environment, as they come from different backgrounds and personal
multicultural experiences. While most multicultural counseling courses focus
on the three components of multicultural counseling competence, counselor
trainees should be provided with more multicultural exposure and
interactions during classes to develop skills to work with diverse clients.
Therefore, this descriptive-correlational study explores the relationship
between multicultural experiences (personal and academic) and
multicultural counseling competencies (self-reported and observer-rated)
among Malaysian counselor trainees. All four instruments had been adapted
and translated into the Malay language before being completed by 208
randomly selected counselor trainees. This study reported that counselor
trainees scored at low levels of personal multicultural experience, high levels
of academic multicultural experience, moderate levels of self-perceived
multicultural counseling competence, and high levels of observed
multicultural counseling competence. The findings showed no significant
relationships between personal and academic multicultural experience and
self-perceived and observed multicultural counseling competence. In
conclusion, the findings imply that there are practices of experiential
pedagogy in delivering multicultural counseling courses in counselor
education programs. However, more research is needed to identify the
underlying variables, such as counseling self-efficacy or self-introspectiveness, which may link the study variables, as this will serve as
the most critical aspect in sustaining the counselor trainees’ multicultural
counseling competencies. |
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