Synopses & Reviews
Providing readers with cutting-edge details on multicultural instrumentation, theories, and research in the social, behavioral, and health-related fields, this Handbook offers extensive coverage of empirically-supported multicultural measurement instruments that span a wide variety of subject areas such as ethic and racial identity, racism, and gender roles. Readers learn how to differentiate among and identify appropriate research tools for a particular project. This Handbook provides clinical practitioners with a useful starting point in their search for multicultural assessment devices they can use with diverse clients to inform clinical treatment. Key Features A multicultural framework and case illustration (the Multicultural Assessment-Intervention Process Model) in Chapter 3 serves as a conceptual framework for the rest of the book and also helps in the implementation of multicultural assessment in training and service delivery in counseling centers, community mental health centers, and hospitals. Multicultural Overviews of a variety of topics as well as instrument summaries help students and professionals complete original research. This Handbook provides an overview of basic psychometric concepts, a practical reference for evaluating the validity, and reliability of measures. A conceptual model of evidence-based culturally competent practice where reviewed measures are appropriately used is presented, providing an integrative framework for the rest of the book.
Synopsis
Providing readers with cutting-edge details on multicultural instrumentation, theories, and research in the social, behavioral, and health-related fields, this Handbook offers extensive coverage of empirically-supported multicultural measurement instruments that span a wide variety of subject areas.Those subjects include psychometrics, cultural competence, racial identity and ethnic identity, acculturation, racism and prejudice, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. This Handbook offers students a psychometric overview, a conceptual framework (Multicultural Assessment-Intervention Process) that helps students maneuver through this complex literature, and a review of key concepts and major findings for each multicultural measurement domain covered. This volume saves researches time and effort, and helps them to understand each instrument in terms of its background and development, its validity, its application, and its strengths and weaknesses.
Synopsis
Providing readers with cutting-edge details on multicultural instrumentation, theories, and research in the social, behavioral, and health-related fields, this Handbook offers extensive coverage of empirically-supported multicultural measurement instruments that span a wide variety of subject areas such as ethnic and racial identity, racism, disability, and gender roles. Readers learn how to differentiate among and identify appropriate research tools for a particular project. This Handbook provides clinical practitioners with a useful starting point in their search for multicultural assessment devices they can use with diverse clients to inform clinical treatment.