Assessment and culture : psychological tests with minority populations /

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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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gopaul-McNicol, Sharon-Ann
Other Authors: Armour-Thomas, Eleanor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, �2002.
Series:Practical resources for the mental health professional.
Subjects:
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Psychological tests.
Psychiatry > Methodology.
Communication in psychiatry.
Cultural psychiatry.
Children.
Cultural pluralism.
Personality assessment.
Psychological Tests
Child
Cultural Diversity
Educational Measurement
Ethnopsychology
Mental Disorders > ethnology
Minority Groups > psychology
Personality Assessment
Ethnopsychiatrie.
Tests psychologiques.
Psychiatrie > M�ethodologie.
Communication en psychiatrie.
Enfants.
Diversit�e culturelle.
Personnalit�e > �Evaluation.
children (people by age group)
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Personality assessment
Cultural pluralism
Children
Psychological tests
Psychiatry, Transcultural
Communication in psychiatry
Cultural psychiatry
Psychiatry > Methodology
Psychologische tests.
Minderheden.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The challenge of non-discriminatory assessment in a culturally diverse society
  • Ethical and legal issues in cross-cultural assessment
  • Toward a bio-cultural perspective of assessment
  • Assessing the intellectual functioning of children from culturally diverse backgrounds
  • Assessing the linguistic proficiency of children from culturally diverse backgrounds
  • Assessing the academic performance of children from culturally diverse backgrounds
  • Assessing the visual-motor and neuropsychological functioning of culturally diverse children
  • Personality assessment and culturally diverse children
  • Cultural issues in vocational/guidance assessment
  • A bio-cultural approach to report writing
  • Training school and university personnel to work with cross-cultural ethnic minority populations
  • Implications for cross-cultural research in assessment
  • Policy implications in cross-cultural assessment.

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