Multicultural Competency of Pre-Service School Counseling Students: Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Multicultural Counseling Competency Training Survey - Revised

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Multicultural competence enables counselors to effectively serve clients from diverse backgrounds (Ratts & Greenleaf, 2018). It is particularly important for school counselors to be culturally aware because their work and interactions with students have long term effects (Priest, Trenerry, Truong, Karlsen, & Kelly, 2013). As racial demographics in the United States continues to shift toward increased racial diversity, it is particularly important for school counseling students to develop multicultural competence so they can be effective at meeting the needs of their culturally diverse student populations once entering the field (Blue, Mupinga, Clark, DeLuca, & Kelly, 2018). Therefore, the purpose of this study is two-fold: First, this study explores whether one multicultural training course has some bearing on school counseling students’ perceived multicultural competency. Second, this study examines the factor structure of the Multicultural Counseling Competence and Training Survey-Revised (MCCTS-R), which was normed on professional school counselors. Exploratory factor analyses reveal one dimension of multicultural counseling competency for school counseling students, as opposed to the three dimensions found on professional school counselors. Implications for school counselor training and research are discussed. Key words: multicultural competence, MCCTS-R, school counseling, counselor training

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