Cultural competence among counselors

Abstract

The objective of this research to know the level of cultural competence among counselors, the researcher built cultural competence scale depending on the Campinha,model so the cultural sufficiently measure in its final form (36) divided into four areas, namely the cultural desire to Items (12) Items of cultural knowledge ( 9) vertebrae and cultural skill (9) vertebrae and cultural encounters (6) vertebrae, formulated in a manner declarative statements and in front of each Items five scalable alternatives to answer, and check researcher of the discriminatory power of the Items of the scale and the coefficient of sincerity, and by applying the measure on the (200) and, and check researcher of validity and reliability instruments using Alpha Cronbach equation, and applied the scale on a sample basic research, amounting to (249) counselors according to the variables of the gender and service, and analyzed the data using statistical bag of Social Sciences Spss The results showed the following:the counselors characterized by cultural sufficiency Secondly there are traces of the gender in cultural competence and in favor of males and there is no trace of the length of service and interactions in cultural competence among counselors