MULTICULTURAL TRAINING PRACTICES IN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMS

Surveyed the directors of 56 community psychology graduate programs to assess multicultural training practices and attitudes. Although most program directors agreed that multicultural training is important in t heir mission to educate students, less than half the programs (48%) re quired their students to take any relevant course work and only half o f the programs surveyed had any faculty who were members of an ethnic minority group and one third had only one such faculty member. Further more, less than half the programs had a combination of training opport unities in place to integrate classroom, research, and field experienc es relevant to multicultural issues. Finally, only 23% of program dire ctors believed their training programs were successful for most studen ts, suggesting the need to improve training.