Reviews four new instruments designed to assess multicultural counseling competence in trainees and practicing professionals: Cross-Cultural Counseling Inventory-Revised; Multicultural Counseling Awareness Scale-Form B; Multicultural Counseling Inventory; and Multicultural Awareness-Knowledge-and-Skills Survey. Posits specific research suggestions for continued empirical validation on instruments, and levels strong cautions regarding their current use in training. (Author/NB)