Handbook of Multicultural Assessment: Clinical, Psychological, and Educational Applications, 3rd Edition

by Editor: Lisa A. Suzuki (New York Univ.); Editor: Joseph G. Ponterotto (Fordham Univ.)

• ISBN13: 9780470183328
• ISBN10: 0470183322
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Handbook of Multicultural Assessment offers the most comprehensive text on testing of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes the most current and state-of-the-art assessment information in a variety of psychological and educational domains. The book highlights new and innovative testing practices and expands the populations of interest to include recent immigrants and refugees. It also includes ways to overcome barriers in the assessment process as well as forensic assessment. This important resource offers an instructional text for conducting culturally competent psychological assessment for clinicians, educators, and researchers.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Editors

The Contributors

General Assessment Issues

General Multicultural Assessment Issues

Issues in Culturally Appropriate Psychoeducational Assessment

Multicultural Assessment Validity: The Preeminent Ethical Issue in Psychological Assessment

Building Community Test Norms: Considerations for Ethnic Minority Populations

Cultural Identity, Racial Identity, and the Multicultural Personality

Acculturation and Multicultural Assessment: Issues, Trends, and Practice

Multicultural Issues in Computer-Based Assessment

Clinical Diagnosis in Multicultural Populations

A Cultural Assessment Framework and Interview Protocol

Assessing Immigrants And Refugees

Considerations for the Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Cultural Adaptation and Translation of Assessment Instruments for Diverse Populations: The Use of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire in Rwanda

Delivering Quality Mental Health Services to Immigrants and Refugees Through an Interpreter

Daily Living Assessment

Assessment of Diverse Family Systems

Culturally Competent Vocational Assessment with At-Risk Adolescents in Middle and High School

Cross-Cultural Considerations in Quality-of-Life Assessment

Testing Issues

Personality Assessment

TEMAS: A Multicultural Test and Its Place in an Assessment Battery

Multicultural Issues in Projective Assessment

On the Multicultural Utility of the 16PF and the CPI-434 in the United States

Multicultural Applications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

MMPI-2 and MCMI-III Performances of Non-White People in the United States: What We (Don't) Know and Where We Go from Here

Assessment Of Cognitive Abilities

Ability Testing Across Cultures

Educational Assessment of English-Language Learners

Multicultural Issues and the Assessment of Aptitude

Academic Achievement Testing for Culturally Diverse Groups

Neuropsychological Assessment in a Multicultural Context: Past, Present and Future

Family-Oriented, Culturally Sensitive (FOCUS) Assessment of Young Children

Assessment Issues for Working with Diverse Populations of Elderly: Multiculturally Sensitive Perspectives

Forensic Assessment

Assessing for Child Maltreatment in Culturally Diverse Families

Competency to Stand Trial: A Multicultural Perspective

Multicultural Assessment: Trends and Future Directions

Name Index

Subject Index

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