This study explores the association between white privilege attitudes and multicultural counseling competencies among white European-American graduate students ( N = 298) in clinical psychology and social work. Results revealed a significant positive association between white privilege attitudes and multicultural counseling competencies. Social work students reported significantly greater levels of white privilege awareness in comparison to clinical psychology students. Female participants reported greater levels of multicultural awareness. The results of this study confirm the assertion that white privilege attitudes are associated with multicultural counseling competencies. Implications of these results for theory, clinical practice, and training were reviewed.

Ethnolinguistics, or cultural linguistics, refers to the intermingling of ethnology and linguistics, and is a discipline which studies the relation between language and culture, especially how different cultural groups perceive, interpret, and put reality into words. This scientific field of study involves the branch of anthropology called ethnology , which investigates the social aspects of cultural groups, comparing and drawing distinctions between them; and linguistics , the scientific discipline that studies language – the systematic study of any language that focuses on its structure (e.g., units, rules that command the association of units).