Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

2 results

  • 3 - Multicultural Issues in Clinical Psychological Assessment

  • from Part I - General Issues in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
  • Edited by Martin Sellbom, University of Otago, New Zealand, Julie A. Suhr, Ohio University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
    Published online:
    06 December 2019
    Print publication:
    19 December 2019, pp 25-37

  • Summary

    This chapter provides a discussion of multicultural issues in clinical psychological assessment. The first two sections discuss best practice–related issues in assessment in relation to (1) clinical diagnosis and (2) psychological testing and assessment. For example, in terms of clinical diagnosis, the Cultural Formulation approach in DSM-5 represents the current major framework for conducting diagnosis with culturally diverse patients. At the same time, we also highlight the importance of cultural threats to validity. In the third and final section, we discuss the remaining challenges and the future directions related to multicultural issues in clinical psychological assessment. These challenges include the evaluation of cultural validity and measurement invariance of our psychological tests and measures. Future directions for the field involve achieving greater representation and generalizability in light of the WEIRD sample bias, that is, most of the psychological research has been conducted in Western Industrialized Rich Democracies.