ASSESSING MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING COMPETENCE - A REVIEW OF INSTRUMENTATION

The authors review four new instruments designed to assess multicultur al counseling competence in trainees and practicing professionals. The Cross-Cultural Counseling Inventory-Revised (CCCI-R), the Multicultur al Counseling Awareness Scale-Form B (MCAS:B), the Multicultural Couns eling Inventory (MCI), and the Multicultural Awareness-Knowledge-and S kills Survey (MAKSS) were each critically reviewed in terms of item de velopment, psychometric properties, and pragmatic utility. Specific re search suggestions for continued empirical validation on the instrumen ts are posited, and strong cautions regarding their current use in tra ining are leveled.