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Published in final edited form as: Train Educ Prof Psychol. 2024 Aug;18(3):265–278. doi: 10.1037/tep0000443

Table 3.

Cultural humility training broadly, cultural knowledge training, and cultural skills training: Differences in perception by participants’ race

Items Asian (1)
M (SD) or % “Yes”
Black (2)
M (SD) or % “Yes”
Latinx (3)
M (SD) or % “Yes”
White (4)
M (SD) or % “Yes”
ANOVA or Chi-Square Test (χ2)
CULTURAL HUMILITY TRAINING BROADLY

Cultural Humility Training Activities

As part of clinical training, my program offers the following cultural humility

  Multiculturalism orientation 38.10% 47.37% 34.62% 56.67% χ2 = 6.21, p = 0.10

  Cultural plunge/Cultural immersion 14.29% 15.79% 16.00% 10.88% χ2 = 3.72, p = 0.29

  Multicultural case conference 19.05% 36.84% 30.77% 33.11% χ2 = 1.93, p = 0.59

  Didactics or workshops on cultural humility 33.33% 52.94% 43.48% 53.52% χ2 = 3.48, p = 0.32

Perception of Cultural Humility Training

My program provides graduate students with up-to-date and empirically based training in cultural humility.b (n=194) 2.59 (1.53) 1 < 4 3.11 (1.60) 2.82 (1.62) 3.52 (1.51) 4 > 1 F (3,190) = 3.24, p <.05


CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE TRAINING

Coursework

Diversity issues are infused throughout graduate courses rather than being isolated to a single lecture or course. b (n = 272) 2.42 (1.41)1 < 4 3.16 (1.75)2 < 4 3.26 (1.63)3 < 4 4.03 (1.36)4 > 1,2,3 F (3,268) =11.97, p <.001
Does your program offer at least one graduate course focused on racial and social justice issues as they relate to clinical practice and clinical science? a (n = 278) 75.00% 61.54% 87.10% 76.65% χ2 = 5.16, p = 0.16

CULTURAL SELF-AWARENESS TRAINING

Clinical Supervisor Discussion of Cultural Identities

Clinical supervisors regularly discuss trainee cultural identities during supervision. b (n=180) 2.43 (1.60) 2.94 (1.69) 3.00 (1.75) 3.12 (1.52) F (3,176) = 1.18 p = 0.32
Clinical supervisors regularly discuss client cultural identities during supervision. b (n=181) 2.81 (1.69) 1 < 2,3,4 4.00 (1.66) 2 < 1 3.80 (1.51) 3 < 4; 3 > 1 4.50 (1.31) 4 > 1,3 F (3,177) = 9.21 p <.001

Reflective Training Exercises

Cultural genogram exercise a (n=218) 14.29% 21.05% 19.23% 21.23% χ2 = 0.57, p = 0.90

Note. M = Mean. SD = standard deviation. Superscript numbers denote significant differences in mean scores between classes based on Least Significant Difference post-hoc comparisons, ps < .05.

a

Responses were coded as yes versus no.

b

Responses ranged from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree).