Psychologists throughout the world are being asked to assess an increasingly diverse clientele: immigrants, refugees, second and third generations still influenced by different cultures and languages, and indigenous peoples now moving towards the mainstream. Most are ill-equipped by training and experience to understand, assess, and subsequently treat such clients competently and ethically. Virtually all agree on the need for culture-sensitive assessment, but it has proven difficult to provide adequate services, despite good intentions and funding.
Key Features
- New model of multicultural assessment practice proposed by Richard Dana.
- General, culture-specific, and step-by-step instrument-specific guidelines for using standard assessment tools.
- Highlights exciting new interpretive possibilities of traditional tests.
- Emphasises the importance of recognising psychometric limits.
- Includes four extended examples demonstrating the model in action.
Additional Information
Clients who may have different worldviews and health-illness beliefs are often marginalised. Many standard assessment instruments, such as the MMPI-2, the Rorschach, and the TAT, are used as though they were universally applicable, despite being designed, researched, and normed on a few groups in the United States. Most busy practitioners have little time to investigate alternatives developed for use with specific groups or issues, generally in a research context.
Specifications
Multicultural Assessment: Principles, Applications, and Examples constitutes an invaluable new resource for psychologists and for their students and trainees.
