The Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale: Assessing Attitudes, Skills, and Knowledge of Counselors Working With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients

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Teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and supportive behaviors toward LGBT students: Relationship to Gay-Straight Alliances, antibullying policy, and teacher training (2016, methodology): “The final scale included on the survey measured teachers’ attitudes toward LGBT youth using an adaptation of the attitudes subscale from the Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale (Bidell, 2005), which is a 42-item self-report measure, incorporating three subscales (Skills, Attitudes, and Kno”
The Relationship Between Level of Training, Implicit Bias, and Multicultural Competency Among Counselor Trainees (2008, methodology): “MCC measurement has also expanded to include specific groups as illustrated by the Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale (SOCCS; Bidell, 2005).”
Sexual Orientation and Counselor Competency: The Impact of Training on Enhancing Awareness, Knowledge and Skills (2008, methodology): “Positive Impact of Training It appears from this pilot data that the LGB competency training program had a positive impact on participants’ scores on the Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale (SOCCS; Bidell, 2005) in the overall score and in the subscales of knowledge and skills.”