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

by Lisa A. Suzuki (Editor), Joseph G. Ponterotto (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787987039
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/14/2007
Series:	Wiley Desktop Editions Series
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Lisa A. Suzuki is Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University and a leader in the field of multicultural assessment, training, and qualitative research methods. She is author or coauthor of numerous publications in the field, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, and is active also in the field of Asian counseling. Professor Suzuki lives in NYC with her husband and daughter.

Joseph G. Ponterotto is Professor of Education at Fordham University.

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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

Editorial Reviews

"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)

From the Publisher

Aiming for comprehensiveness, this volume focuses on major assessment issues, popular instruments, and their application to diverse populations. Updated since the 1996 edition, the new volume takes into account the growing number of racial and ethnic minorities in the US and refines the those variables that affect performance on cognitive and personality tests. Written by academicians and clinicians who work with the particular assessment instruments and procedures described, contributions address general multicultural assessment issues; daily living assessment; personality assessment; and assessment of cognitive abilities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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