Handbook of Multicultural Assessment: Clinical, Psychological, and Educational A

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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 ix The Editors xiii The Contributors xv Part One: General Assessment Issues 1 Section One: General Multicultural Assessment Issues 3 1 Issues in Culturally Appropriate Psychoeducational Assessment 5
Amado M. Padilla, Graciela N. Borsato 2 Multicultural Assessment Validity: The Preeminent Ethical Issue in Psychological Assessment 22
Charles R. Ridley, Michael L. Tracy, Laura Pruitt-Stephens, Mary K. Wimsatt, Jacquelyn Beard 3 Building Community Test Norms: Considerations for Ethnic Minority Populations 34
Robert G. Malgady, Gerardita Colon-Malgady 4 Cultural Identity, Racial Identity, and the Multicultural Personality 52
Alan W. Burkard, Joseph G. Ponterotto 5 Acculturation and Multicultural Assessment: Issues, Trends, and Practice 73
Lourdes M. Rivera 6 Multicultural Issues in Computer-Based Assessment 92
Muninder K. Ahluwalia 7 Clinical Diagnosis in Multicultural Populations 107
Richard H. Dana 8 A Cultural Assessment Framework and Interview Protocol 132
Ingrid Grieger Section Two: Assessing Immigrants and Refugees 163 9 Considerations for the Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers 165
Judy B. Okawa 10 Cultural Adaptation and Translation of Assessment Instruments for Diverse Populations: The Use of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire in Rwanda 195
Mary Fabri 11 Delivering Quality Mental Health Services to Immigrants and Refugees Through an Interpreter 220
Maria Prendes-Lintel, Francisca Peterson Section Three: Daily Living Assessment 245 12 Assessment of Diverse Family Systems 247
Daniel T. Sciarra, George M. Simon 13 Culturally Competent Vocational Assessment with At-Risk Adolescents in Middle and High School 273
Margo A. Jackson, Aisha M. B. Holder, Morgan T. Ramage 14 Cross-Cultural Considerations in Quality-of-Life Assessment 299
Shawn O. Utsey, Mark A. Bolden Part Two: Testing Issues 319 Section One: Personality Assessment 321 15 TEMAS: A Multicultural Test and Its Place in an Assessment Battery 323
Rosemary Flanagan, Giuseppe Costantino, Elsa Cardalda, Erminia Costantino 16 Multicultural Issues in Projective Assessment 346
Giselle B. Esquivel, Geraldine V. Oades-Sese, Sarah Littman Olitzky 17 On the Multicultural Utility of the 16PF and the CPI-434 in the United States 375
Kristen M. Strack, Marcella H. Dunaway, Stefan E. Schulenberg 18 Multicultural Applications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® 402
Mary H. McCaulley, Raymond A. Moody 19 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 425
Kwong-Liem Karl Kwan, Michael Lynch Maestas Section Two: Assessment of Cognitive Abilities 447 20 Ability Testing Across Cultures 449
Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko 21 Educational Assessment of English-Language Learners 471
Graciela N. Borsato, Amado M. Padilla 22 Multicultural Issues and the Assessment of Aptitude 490
Lisa A. Suzuki, Lorelei Prevost, Ellen L. Short 23 Academic Achievement Testing for Culturally Diverse Groups 520
Craig L. Frisby 24 Neuropsychological Assessment in a Multicultural Context: Past, Present, and Future 542
Arthur MacNeill Horton Jr. 25 Family-Oriented, Culturally Sensitive (FOCUS) Assessment of Young Children 565
Paul J. Meller, Phyllis S. Ohr 26 Assessment Issues for Working with Diverse Populations of Elderly: Multiculturally Sensitive Perspectives 594
Amanda L. Baden, Grace Wong Section Three: Forensic Assessment 625 27 Assessing for Child Maltreatment in Culturally Diverse Families 627
Lisa A. Fontes, Margarita R. O'Neill-Arana 28 Competency to Stand Trial: A Multicultural Perspective 651
Sergei V. Tsytsarev, Amanda Landes 29 Multicultural Assessment: Trends and Future Directions 666
Lisa A. Suzuki, Joseph G. Ponterotto Name Index 672 Subject Index 694

Review

"Designed to be useful for both researchers and clinicians, this reference work brings together a wide variety of authors to examine how multicultural issues affect assessment in general and several specific subsets of assessment in greater depth. The quality of this reference book is excellent. The authors are all highly competent to write about the subject, and their authority is unquestionable. It is highly recommended." (American Reference Books Annual, 2008)

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"Designed to be useful for both researchers and clinicians, this reference work brings together a wide variety of authors to examine how multicultural issues affect assessment in general and several specific subsets of assessment in greater depth. The quality of this reference book is excellent. The authors are all highly competent to write about the subject, and their authority is unquestionable. It is highly recommended." (American Reference Books Annual, 2008)

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"Designed to be useful for both researchers and clinicians, this reference work brings together a wide variety of authors to examine how multicultural issues affect assessment in general and several specific subsets of assessment in greater depth. The quality of this reference book is excellent. The authors are all highly competent to write about the subject, and their authority is unquestionable. It is highly recommended." ( American Reference Books Annual , 2008)

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"Designed to be useful for both researchers and clinicians, this reference work brings together a wide variety of authors to examine how multicultural issues affect assessment in general and several specific subsets of assessment in greater depth. The quality of this reference book is excellent. The authors are all highly competent to write about the subject, and their authority is unquestionable. It is highly recommended." (American Reference Books Annual, 2008)

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This expanded edition offers new ways to overcome barriers in the assessment process. Serves as an instructional text for conducting culturally competent psychological assessment for clinicians, educators, and researchers. Offers information on general assessment issues, integrating culture in assessment practice, and personality assessment. Includes the most current information on cognitive assessment and forensic assessment. Contains practical guidance and case examples to illustrate important points.

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