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Guide to Psychological Assessment with Asians
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Barnes and Noble
Guide to Psychological Assessment with Asians
Current price: $54.99
Barnes and Noble
Guide to Psychological Assessment with Asians
Current price: $54.99
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Size: Hardcover
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The
synthesizes real-world challenges, empirical findings, clinical knowledge and common-sense advice to create a comprehensive framework for practice. This informed resource is geared toward evaluation of first-generation Asian Americans and recent immigrants across assessment methods (self-report measures, projective tests), settings (school, forensic) and classes of disorders (eating, substance, sexual). While the
details cross-cultural considerations for working with Chinese-, Japanese-, Korean and Indian-American clients, best practices are also included for assessing members of less populous groups without underestimating, overstating or stereotyping the role of ethnicity in the findings. In addition, contributors discuss diversity of presentation within groups and identify ways that language may present obstacles to accurate evaluation. Among the areas covered in this up-to-date reference:
Designed for practitioners new to working with Asian clients as well as those familiar with the population, the
is exceedingly useful to neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, health psychologists and clinical social workers.