Culturally Competent Assessment Practice in the United States

摘要: Assessment practice with multicultural populations in the United States requires cultural competence. Culturally competent assessment includes culture-specific styles of service delivery, use client's first language, and an evaluation client as a being prior to test administration using orientation categories. This information is essential for understanding health/illness beliefs, indicate possible presence symptoms, select standard or tests. ethics recognize desirability alteration modification tests by translation development new norms. Cross-cultural construct validity, response sets, variables are also research priorities. Culture-specific should be constructed validated some clients determined status. Feedback findings significant others consistent expectations. Professional societal benefits competence suggested.