Page No :394-405
Tejasi Pendse and Gautam Gawali
Amity University, Mumbai.
The present study aims to examine the relationship between counsellors’ multicultural
competencies and counselling process outcomes. Seventy-five counsellors and 270
clients participated in the study using a purposive sampling technique. The statistical
analysis presents that counsellors’ multicultural competencies were partially correlated
with the counselling process outcomes. To find out the determinants of the process
outcomes, a stepwise regression analysis was performed. Multicultural counselling
relationship, social justice activism, culturally diverse friendship, racial/ethnic identity
development, and counsellors’ religion appeared to have predicted the counselling
process outcomes. Amongst these variables, religion, social justice activism, and racial/
ethnic identity development tend to have negatively impacted the process outcomes,
whereas multicultural counselling relationship and culturally diverse friendship have
positive impact on the same. The study’s findings are discussed in light of counsellors’
religious values/attitudes, the need for targeted training and supervision, and the
emphasis on culturally appropriate, relevant, and socially just interventions for improved
process outcomes.