Comparison of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies of Tehran's counselors with Different Ethnicity in Dimensions of Knowledge, Awareness and Skill

This study was an attempt to compare the multicultural counseling competencies of Tehran‘s counselors considering their ethnicity. These competencies were investigated based on the three dimensions of knowledge, awareness and skill which are based on the newest theory of multicultural counseling competencies. In this study, to collect the data, survey method and researcher-made questionnaire were used. Population of the study included all Tehran’s counselors who had the employment permit until 2012 and of this population, 298 counselors were selected as the samples through simple random sampling. Using Kruskal Wallis statistical test, the results showed that the counselors with Mazandarani ethnicity came in the first place in terms the degree of multicultural counseling knowledge and that the counselors with Gilaki ethnicity came in the last place in terms of the degree of multicultural counseling knowledge. Furthermore, no significant difference was seen among the counselors with different ethnicity concerning the degree of multicultural counseling awareness. As for the dimension of skill, the counselors with Turkman ethnicity came in the first place in terms of the degree of multicultural counseling skill and the counselors with Kurdish ethnicity came in the second place. Also, counselors with Gilaki ethnicity came in the last place in terms of the degree of multicultural counseling skill.