Supervisee multicultural case conceptualization ability and self-reported multicultural competence as functions of supervisee racial identity and supervisor focus.

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Supervisor cultural responsiveness and unresponsiveness in cross-cultural supervision.

“…For instance, supervisees reported increases in personal awareness of cultural issues (Toporek et al, 2004), in their ability to include multicultural issues in client treatment conceptualization (Ladany, Inman, Constantine, & Hofheinz, 1997), and in overall case conceptualization abilities (Gainor & Constantine, 2002) when multicultural issues were addressed in supervision in comparison to when they were not addressed. Furthermore, supervisees also reported acquiring higher levels of multicultural competence when multicultural issues were addressed as opposed to when they were not addressed (Constantine, 2001).…”

Stigma of mental illness and multicultural counseling self-efficacy : investigating the implications of the multicultural training environment, mental health literacy, and empathy.

“…Findings indicated that, controlling for social desirability, there was no significant relationship between each of the four self-report multicultural counseling competence instruments and multicultural case conceptualization ability, supporting previous similar findings by Ladany, Inman, Constantine, and Hofheinz (1997). The authors suggested that these findings reflected the likelihood that instruments intended to measure multicultural counseling competence may have measured anticipated rather than actual attitudes or beliefs, knowledge, and skills, or that they, in fact, were measuring multicultural counseling self-efficacy rather than multicultural counseling competence.…”

Client and Practitioner Perspectives on Multicultural Counseling Competence

“…Research has shown that self-ratings on multicultural competence scales do not correlate with observer measures of cultural competence (Worthington et al, 2000) or with multicultural case conceptualization ability (Constantine & Ladany, 2000;Ladany et al, 1997). Although minimal research has been done in this area, self-report measures have not been found to correlate with any other measures of multicultural counseling competence currently available, indicating that the constructs assessed through these measures differ by respondent.…”

“…Indeed, findings suggest no statistically significant relation between self-reported multicultural competence and written multicultural case conceptualization ability, a measure of demonstrated multicultural competence (Constantine & Ladany, 2000;Ladany et al, 1997) or observer ratings of multicultural competence (Worthington, Mobley, Franks, & Tan, 2000). Such concerns have raised questions about the completeness and accuracy of current models and have led to suggestions that client input may also play an important role in furthering understanding of multicultural counseling competence (Fuertes et al, 2001;Pope-Davis et al, 2001 Cultural Sensitivity), factor analysis suggests that it measures only one factor (LaFramboise et al, 1991).…”

“…The practitioner self-report measures are based largely on the well-regarded multicultural competence guidelines set forth by D. W. Sue, P. Arredondo, and R. McDavis (1992). Unfortunately, subsequent research has found no significant relation between scores on practitioner self-report measures and other accepted measures of cultural competence, such as multicultural case conceptualization ability (Constantine & Ladany, 2000;Ladany, Inman, Constantine, & Hofheinz, 1997).…”