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

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Pub. Date: 2008-02-01
Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
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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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