Description
Book SynopsisWith more than 50% new material this new edition provides readers with the most current and state-of-the-art assessment information in a variety of psychological and educational domains. It highlights new and innovative testing practices and expands the populations of interest to include recent immigrants and refugees.
Trade 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)
Table of ContentsPreface 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
