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Title
A brief mindfulness intervention: effects on counselor trainees' multicultural counseling competence and ethnocultural empathy
Description
Increasing counselor trainees’ self-efficacy for multicultural counseling competence (MCC) is an essential part of their professional development to serve racially and ethnically diverse clients effectively. The present study examined the impact of multicultural training and the effects of a brief mindfulness intervention, compared to a control condition, on counselor trainees’ self-reported ethnocultural empathy and MCC. Data obtained from a sample of masters (n = 63) and doctoral (n = 23) counselor trainees were analyzed through a series of linear multiple hierarchical regression analyses. Consistent with previous research, results revealed that multicultural training significantly predicted scores of self-reported multicultural counseling knowledge and empathic feeling. The mindfulness intervention significantly predicted self-reported multicultural counseling knowledge. There was a significant interaction between condition (i.e., mindfulness intervention or control) and previous multicultural training when examining ethnocultural empathy’s empathic feeling and expression subscale. Specifically, trainees with lower levels of multicultural training who received the mindfulness intervention scored higher on empathic feeling compared to those in the control condition, while at higher levels of multicultural training there were no differences across condition. Implications for future research and counselor training are discussed.
Date Created
2018
Contributors
- Smith, Bethany E (Author)
- Spanierman, Lisa B (Thesis advisor)
- Tran, Alisia G. T. (Committee member)
- Arredondo, Patricia (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Multicultural education
- Counselor education
- Counselor trainees
- ethnocultural empathy
- Mindfulness
- multicultural counseling competence
- Counselors--Training of.
- Social service and race relations--Study and teaching (Higher)
- Social service and race relations
- Multicultural education--Study and teaching (Higher)
- Multicultural education
- Empathy--Study and teaching (Higher)
- Empathy
- Mindfulness (Psychology)--Study and teaching (Higher)
- Mindfulness (Psychology)
Extent
vi, 73 pages : 1 illustration
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50494
Statement of Responsibility
by Bethany E. Smith
Description Source
Viewed on November 28, 2018
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.C., Arizona State University, 2018
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-43)
Field of study: Counseling
System Created
- 2018-10-01 08:01:52
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 3 years 2 months ago
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