Investigating the relationship between multicultural education, color blind attitudes, professional orientation, and supervision status on play therapists' multicultural counseling competencies
by Penn, Casaundria Latrice, Ph.D., THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE, 2010, 120 pages; 3445885

Abstract:

According to the United States Census data, the number of diverse children living in the United States is expected to increase. In addition, children with mental health needs are increasingly diagnosed and needing services with adequately training. This flux in children with mental health needs strengthens the call for play therapists to provide age appropriate therapeutic support to children. However, limited research exists which explores play therapists' cultural readiness. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to learn more about professionals using play therapy by examining the relationship between multicultural education, color blind attitudes, professional orientation, and supervision status on self-reported multicultural competencies of play therapists. A total of 510 Professional Members from the Association for Play Therapy completed three online surveys, The Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale (MCKAS; Ponterotto et al., 2002), Color Blind Racial Attitude Scale (COBRAS; Neville et al., 2000), and a demographic survey. Using standard multiple regression, the dependent variables of Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Multicultural Counseling Awareness respectively were analyzed in relations to the predictor variables of multicultural education, color blind racial attitudes, professional orientation, and supervision status. The result of the first equation indicated a statistically significant relationship between Multicultural Counseling Knowledge, all of the multicultural education variables and two of the color blind variables. These variables accounted for 24% of the variance. The results from the second equation revealed a statistically significant relationship with the three color blind racial attitude subscales and the play therapy supervisor variable on play therapists' self-reported Multicultural Counseling Awareness accounting for 34% of the variance. These results suggest that multicultural education, color blind racial attitude, and providing supervision may influence play therapists' multicultural counseling abilities.

 
AdviserPhyllis Post
SchoolTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE
SourceDAI/B 72-04, p. , Mar 2011
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsMental health; Multicultural education; School counseling; Counseling psychology
Publication Number3445885
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