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Promoting Ego Development and Multicultural Competence During Internship

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This research involved an exploratory intervention to determine the effectiveness of using a deliberate psychological education (DPE) approach that incorporated issues of ethics, multicultural competence, oppression and diversity. The study attempted to discern if the DPE model used could make a difference in the promotion of ego development (which subsumes moral development) and multicultural knowledge and awareness of counselor interns. The intervention group showed significant gains compared to comparison groups in ego development as measured by the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WSCT) (Loevinger 1985) as well as significant gains on the Knowledge subscale of the Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale (MCKAS, Ponterotto et al. 2002).

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  1. University of Colorado Denver, Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education, Denver, CO, USA

    Edward P. Cannon

  2. Roosevelt University, Department of Counseling and Human Services, Chicago, IL, USA

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Cannon, E.P., Frank, D. Promoting Ego Development and Multicultural Competence During Internship. Int J Adv Counselling 31, 199–211 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10447-009-9078-0

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