Assessment and Culture

Assessment and Culture challenges the classical approach to the assessment of minority populations by pointing out the deficiencies in this approach and offers instead a bio-cultural model of assessment. The principle objective of this book is to help mental health professionals to more accurately assess individuals from various ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The culture-fair techniques and strategies of the book tap into a broad range of the abilities and aptitudes of the examinee. Assessment and Culture provides a cultural frame of reference which allows the examiner to take into account the individual's social and cultural factors in development, coping style and personal history. Individual chapters consider the practical aspects of assessing the intellectual, linguistic, academic, visual-motor, emotional and vocational functioning of culturally diverse children. An entire section of the book is devoted to writing the assessment report.

ISBN 0122904516   Pages 210 ISBN13 9780122904516 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc   Weight (grammes) 442 Imprint Academic Press Inc   Published in San Diego Format Hardback   Series title Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional Publication date 05 Nov 2001   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 01094481   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 150.287   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Acknowledgments
Pt. I		Socio-Political and Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Assessment
1		Introduction		3
2		The Challenge of Non-discriminatory Assessment in a Culturally Diverse Society		5
3		Ethical and Legal Issues in Cross-Cultural Assessment		17
4		Toward a Bio-Cultural Perspective of Assessment		27
Pt. II		Practical Issues in Cross-Cultural Assessment
5		Assessing the Intellectual Functioning of Children from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds		43
6		Assessing the Linguistic Proficiency of Children from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds		59
7		Assessing the Academic Performance of Children from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds		71
8		Assessing the Visual-Motor and Neuropsychological Functioning of Culturally Diverse Children		85
9		Personality Assessment and Culturally Diverse Children		95
10		Cultural Issues in Vocational/Guidance Assessment		113
11		A Bio-Cultural Approach to Report Writing		121
Pt. III		Implications for Cross-Cultural Training, Research, and Policy
12		Training School and University Personnel to Work with Cross-Cultural Ethnic Minority Populations		141
13		Implications for Cross-Cultural Research in Assessment		159
14		Policy Implications in Cross-Cultural Assessment		165
		References		175
		Biosketch of Authors		201
		Index		203

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