Multicultural Assessment

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Suzuki ◽  
Muninder K. Ahluwalia
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Assessment

Multicultural Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology in the United States: Still Art, Not Yet Science, and Controversial

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Dana
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Therapeutic Assessment ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Multicultural Assessment ◽  
Personality Description

This paper describes the status of multicultural assessment training, research, and practice in the United States. Racism, politicization of issues, and demands for equity in assessment of psychopathology and personality description have created a climate of controversy. Some sources of bias provide an introduction to major assessment issues including service delivery, moderator variables, modifications of standard tests, development of culture-specific tests, personality theory and cultural/racial identity description, cultural formulations for psychiatric diagnosis, and use of findings, particularly in therapeutic assessment. An assessment-intervention model summarizes this paper and suggests dimensions that compel practitioners to ask questions meriting research attention and providing avenues for developments of culturally competent practice.

A Primer for Evaluating Test Bias and Test Fairness: Implications for Multicultural Assessment

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Richard S. Balkin ◽  
Courtney C. C. Heard ◽  
ShinHwa Lee ◽  
Lisa A. Wines
Keyword(s):  
Test Bias ◽  
Test Fairness ◽  
Multicultural Assessment

Dimensional and Multicultural Assessment of Preschoolers’ Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Problems

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-266
Author(s):  
Thomas Achenbach
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
International Classification Of Diseases ◽  
Multiple Informants ◽  
Childhood Disorders ◽  
Family Service ◽  
Classification Of Diseases ◽  
Infancy And Early Childhood ◽  
Multicultural Assessment

This chapter presents nosological models for early childhood psychopathology embodied in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), fifth edition, and the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision. It also presents the revised Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Development Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood as another nosological approach that provides more differentiated diagnostic categories and criteria for early childhood disorders. As an alternative to the top-down nosological approaches based on experts’ concepts of disorders, the chapter presents bottom-up approaches that statistically derive dimensional syndromes from ratings of problems in large samples of children. Statistically derived syndromes have been supported by data from multiple informants in dozens of societies around the world. The data from these societies have been used to construct multicultural norms for the syndromes, for DSM-oriented scales, and for broad-spectrum Internalizing, Externalizing, and Total Problems scales. Case illustrations are provided for translational applications in medical, mental health, educational, and child or family service settings.

Does African American Women’s Racial Identity Mediate Gendered Racism on Anticipated Relationship Threat?

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051987230
Author(s):  
Giana N. Young ◽  
Glenn Gamst ◽  
Lawrence S. Meyers ◽  
Aghop Der-Karabetian ◽  
Cheryl T. Grills
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Gendered Racism ◽  
American Women ◽  
Relationship Threat ◽  
Multicultural Assessment ◽  
The Relationship

The present study examined the question of whether racial identity among African American women mediated the relationship between gendered racism and anticipated relationship threat. Using the Multicultural Assessment Intervention Process (MAIP) framework, we examined the relationship of gendered racism, racial identity, and anticipated relationship threat among a convenience sample of 411 African American women. A structural model was configured with gendered racism directly predicting anticipated relationship threat and racial identity serving as a mediator. Results indicated that greater levels of perceived gendered racism were associated with greater perceptions of anticipated relationship threat. Racial identity was found to not mediate the association with anticipated relationship threat. Individuals with less education experienced higher levels of concern regarding physical safety and controlling behaviors than those with more education. Implications for future relationship threat research with African American women are discussed.

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