That one course: two surveys on multicultural counseling curriculum

Abstract We surveyed multicultural counseling training practices in graduate level counseling programs in the United States in 2009 and 2020. The initial 2009 investigation focused on masters’ level programs and the characteristics of the respondents’ institutions, counseling programs, and multicultural counseling class (es). Another slightly shorter survey was fielded in 2020 and solicited participation from both masters and doctoral level instructors. Both surveys included questions about the nature of the multicultural counseling curriculum and the instructors’ experiences related to multicultural counseling preparation and teaching. We found while few instructors indicated the presence of more than one multicultural counseling course, broad categories of multicultural issues have been covered in these courses. Skills training, when present, in the form of counseling role-play, appears to be rare and short for most instructors. European American males were in the statistical minority of multicultural counseling instructors, despite representing a large percentage of the counseling population.