Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale: Re-Exploration and Refinement

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• 作者：Junfei Lu
• 关键词：Multicultural counseling competency ; Assessment ; Counselor training ; Counselor practice
• 刊名：International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：39
• 期：1
• 页码：14-27
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Psychotherapy and Counseling; Clinical Psychology; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Psychological Methods/Evaluation;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3246
• 卷排序：39

文摘

This study refined the Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale (MCKAS; Ponterotto et al. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 30, 153–180, 2002) in response to concerns in the literature (e.g., Constantine et al. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 8(4), 334–345, 2002) focusing on original sample representation, factor structure, and constructs of interest within this scale. For this refinement study, a total of 176 participants from various counseling fields in the United States completed an online survey. The results of an exploratory factor analysis presented a 28-item 2-factor refined version of the MCKAS (MCKAS-R). The preliminary MANOVA analysis indicated that this refined scale differentiated multicultural counseling competencies of participants who were counselors, counseling students, and counselor educators. Implications of this scale for counselor training, practice, and future research are provided.