Examining multicultural counseling competence and race-related attitudes among White marital and family therapists

This study investigates the relative contributions of social desirability a ttitudes, previous number of multicultural counseling courses taken, and ra cism and White racial identity attitudes together in predicting marital and family therapists' self-reported multicultural counseling competence. Resu lts revealed that, when controlling for social desirability attitudes and t he number of multicultural courses taken, racism and White racial identity attitudes in consort accounted for a significant amount of the variance in self-perceived multicultural counseling competence. Implications for marita l and family therapy training, practice, and research are discussed.