School Counselor Sexual Minority Advocacy Competence Scale (SCSMACS)

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop the School Counselor Sexual Minority Advocacy Competence Scale (SCSMACS), a measure to use in training school counselors to advocate for sexual minority students. Developing the SCSMACS involved (a) generating items, (b) reducing items, and (c) gathering data from middle and high school counselors to conduct principal component analysis and reliability and validity testing. The author found support for content validity, construct validity, criterion validity, and test–retest reliability.