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

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

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.

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)