ABSTRACT
The need for cross-cultural supervision competencies in training culturally-skilled counselors is explained. The development of the Multicultural Supervision Competencies Questionnaire (MSCQ) outlined and initial evidence of its reliability is presented. The MSCQ is a 60-item questionnaire covering four multicultural supervision competencies: Attitude, Knowledge, Skills and Relationship. Twenty questionnaires were completed by graduate students in Counseling Psychology regarding their practicum or internship supervisors who were from a different ethnic cultural background. The results show that this sample of supervisors had rather low levels of cross-cultural competencies. The internal reliability of the MSCQ was high, with Alpha values in the .90s for all four subscales and the total MSCQ scores. The usefulness of the MSCQ in cross-cultural counselor education and supervision research was discussed.
