Eighty‐seven incoming doctoral students (65 European American and 22 people of color) completed a battery of tests (e.g., a multicultural counseling competency measure). More advanced levels of racial identity development were generally correlated with higher levels of multicultural counseling competency, greater amounts of prior multicultural training, and higher self‐reported ratings of overall counseling competency and multicultural counseling competency.

The relationship between racial identity development and multicultural counseling competency across a 2-year period of time was examined in this study. Significant increases were found in multicultural counseling competency but not in their levels of racial identity development across time. Possible explanations for and limitations of this research are discussed.La relacion entre el desarrollo de la identidad racial y la competencia para consejeria multicultural a traves de un periodo de dos atios se examina en esta investigacion. Se encuentran aumentos significantes en la competencia para consejeria multicultural, per0 no en el nivel de desarrollo de identidad racial a traves del tiempo. Se examinan las posibles explicaciones y las limitaciones de esta investigacion tambien. acial identity development, or "one's sense of belonging to an ethnic group and the part of one's thinking, perceptions, feelings, and behav-