Biculturalism was examined as a factor that may positively affect the academic achievement of African American high school students, beyond cultural identity and self-esteem. Hierarchical regression analyses determined that cultural identity and academic self-esteem were important factors for academic achievement, but not biculturalism.…

This article reports the results of two studies designed to test and revise the Multicultural Counseling Awareness Scale. Collective results support the 2-factor extraction (Knowledge and Awareness) as the best fit model and provide initial indices of validity and internal consistency reliability for the newly titled Multicultural Counseling…

This article summarizes normative data and psychometric evidence for scores on the Quick Discrimination Index. Specific guidelines for counseling researchers and practitioners are provided. (Contains 31 references and 5 tables.) (Author)

Examined Black students' attitudes toward counseling, preferences for an ethnically similar counselor, and preferences for mental health resources within the framework of a model for racial identity. Results indicated that Black students' attitudes toward counseling are an interactive function of sex and racial identity. (BL)

Focuses on identifying the leading contributors to "Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development" from October 1979 to April 1984 in terms of both authors and institutions, examining the content of the articles and the type of articles and providing a descriptive profile of the articles, including average page lengths and average number of…

Systematically examined four nationally refereed counseling journals most likely to publish multiculturally focused articles to identify most influential books, chapters, conceptual/theoretical articles, empirical studies, and scholars in the multicultural counseling field. Total of 3,778 references were extracted from 151 journal articles over…

Discusses stage model describing racial identity and consciousness development process among majority (i.e., Euro-Anglo White) counselor trainees esconced in a multicultural learning environment. Proposes four-stage developmental model wherein trainees come to acknowledge and accept their own racial identity and that of minorities. (BH)

The Multicultural Competency Checklist can be used by counseling training programs as a pragmatic guide in multicultural program development. The checklist includes 22 items organized along 6 major themes: (1) minority representation; (2) curriculum issues; (3) counseling practice and supervision; (4) research considerations; (5) student and…