Page No 94-105
Tejasi Pendse and Gautam Gawali
Amity University, Mumbai
India is a home to varied cultures and ethnicities which aids in developing the worldviews
of individuals. As cultural-beings, both counsellors and clients tend to bring their
worldviews in the counselling process. As a fourth force of the psychology multiculturalism
in the field of counselling psychology has been studied and worked upon in the Western
countries for quite some decade now; however, in the Indian context, it is yet to be an
explored and studied area in the counselling psychology field. The present study thus
aims to fill the gap by assessing if such psycho-socio-cultural variables play any role
in the counselling process and if there is any relationship between counsellors’ (n=75)
multicultural counselling competencies and multicultural personality traits. Through
descriptive research methods the present study tries to shed light on such relationships
and determine the predictors of multicultural counselling competencies in the Indian
context.