Handbook of Multicultural Assessment: Clinical, Psychological, and Educational Applications - Softcover

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Lisa A. Suzuki, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. She is a co-editor of the Handbook of Multicultural Assessment, Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, and Qualitative Strategies with Ethnocultural Populations. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Division 17, and recipient of a Visionary Leadership Award from the National Multicultural Conference and Summit (2007) and Distinguished Contribution Award from the Asian American Psychological Association (2006).

Radhika Krishnamurthy, Psy.D., ABAP is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Florida Tech. She is a co-editor of Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment (2018), co-author of two MMPI-A texts, and several book chapters and journal articles on psychological assessment. She is a former President of the Society for Personality Assessment (2011–2013) and the Assessment Psychology section of the American Psychological Association’s Division 12 (2008). She serves on the editorial boards of several assessment journals.

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The most comprehensive text on testing racial and ethnic minorities in the United States and internationally

Handbook of Multicultural Assessment covers the most current assessment information in a variety of psychological and educational domains, focusing specifically on multicultural and diverse populations, including recent immigrants and refugees. This Fourth Edition represents a major update, addressing current versions of popular assessments, remote testing, and issues of fairness, intersectionality, and cultural equivalence. The focus has been expanded to more domains of application, and this edition adopts a more international perspective. The handbook highlights new and innovative clinical, educational, and forensic psychological testing practices and ways to overcome barriers in the assessment process.

• Learn about contemporary, state-of-the-art practices
• Develop an awareness of the complex issues involved in assessing multicultural populations
• Gain the skill to conduct psychological testing and assessment in a way that is attentive to the intersectional identities of each individual
• Perform culturally sensitive personality and cognitive assessments of various populations, inclusive of immigrants, refugees, and indigenous peoples

This important resource offers an instructional text for conducting culturally competent psychological assessment for clinicians, educators, and researchers.