Multicultural issues in clinical psychological assessment

摘要: There have been increasing theoretical developments and empirical research regarding multicultural issues in clinical psychological assessment and diagnosis over the past two decades. This is illustrated by a series of articles and chapters that have reviewed cross-cultural problems in assessment and clinical diagnosis with various ethnic and national groups (eg, Adebimpe, 2004; Cheung, Leong, & Ben-Porath, 2003; Eap et al., 2010; Malgady, 1996). In this chapter, we add to this literature by addressing the multiple challenges in clinical psychological assessment and diagnosis from a multicultural perspective. We have undertaken this task by discussing the multicultural issues in relation to (1) clinical diagnosis and (2) psychological testing and assessment. In each of these two sections, we describe frameworks that represent best practices. For example, in terms of clinical diagnosis, the Cultural Formulations …