Assessment and Culture (eBook)

Psychological Tests with Minority Populations

Eleanor Armour-Thomas, Sharon-ann Gopaul McNicol (Autoren)

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2001 | 1. Auflage
210 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-049950-5 (ISBN)

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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 assess individuals from various ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The culture-fair techniques and strategies of the book tap into a broad range of the abilities and aptitudes of the examinee. Assessment and Culture provides a cultural frame of reference which allows the examiner to take into account the individual's social and cultural factors in development, coping style and personal history. Individual chapters consider the practical aspects of assessing the intellectual, linguistic, academic, visual-motor, emotional and vocational functioning of culturally diverse children. An entire section of the book is devoted to writing the assessment report.

Sharon-Ann Gopaul-McNicol, Ph.D. has recently been appointed as the Assistant Director for the Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation. Prior to coming on at APA, she was the director/coordinator of the school psychology program at Howard University, and is a clinical and school psychologist. She is the author of eight books, some of have been used to train psychologists in working with cross-cultural populations. Dr. Gopaul-McNicol has presented at various national and international conferences and has served as a psychological and educational consultant for various education departments around the world.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Assessment and Culture: Psychological Tests with Minority Populations 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Preface 10
Acknowledgments 12
Part I: Socio-Political and Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Assessment 14
Chapter 1. Introduction 16
Chapter 2. The Challenge of Non-discriminatory Assessment in a Culturally Diverse Society 18
Chapter 3. Ethical and Legal Issues in Cross-Cultural Assessment 30
Chapter 4. Toward a Bio-Cultural Perspective of Assessment 40
Part II: Practical Issues in Cross-Cultural Assessment 54
Chapter 5. Assessing the Intellectual Functioning of Children from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds 56
Chapter 6. Assessing the Linguistic Proficiency of Children from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds 72
Chapter 7. Assessing the Academic Performance of Children from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds 84
Chapter 8. Assessing the Visual-Motor and Neuropsychological Functioning of Culturally Diverse Children 98
Chapter 9. Personality Assessment and Culturally Diverse Children 108
Chapter 10. Cultural Issues in Vocational/Guidance Assessment 126
Chapter 11. A Bio-Cultural Approach to Report Writing 134
Part III: Implications for Cross-Cultural Training, Research, and Policy 152
Chapter 12. Training School and University Personnel to Work with Cross-Cultural Ethnic Minority Populations 154
Chapter 13. Implications for Cross-Cultural Research in Assessment 172
Chapter 14. Policy Implications in Cross-Cultural Assessment 178
References 188
Biosketch of Authors 214
Index 216

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2001
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-08-049950-3 / 0080499503
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-049950-5 / 9780080499505