Abstract
Counselor multicultural orientation, and broaching skills, develop over the course of a career. Researchers have primarily examined multicultural development in training programs. In this preliminary study, we surveyed licensees (
n
= 9) and their supervisors (
n
= 7) at a community-based behavioral health care clinic about their cultural behaviors over a 6-month period. We found evidence of (a) an increase in average cultural behavior scores for supervisees and supervisors, (b) higher self-ratings compared to supervisee- and supervisor-ratings of the other’s cultural behaviors, except for supervisor’s cultural behaviors with the supervisee’s clients, (c) educational interventions supervisors applied to scaffold broaching, such as cultural case conceptualization and modeling, (d) variation in how often supervisees broached different identities. These early findings suggest avenues to support supervisees continued multicultural development.