Essentials of Culture in Psychological Assessment

A. JORDAN WRIGHT is the Director of the PhD program in combined Clinical/Counseling Psychology at New York University, where he is also the Director of the Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing, NYU’s training clinic. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology and the American Board of Professional Psychology, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Personality Assessment, and chaired the APA task force that developed guidelines for education and training in psychological assessment. He is also the Chief Clinical Officer at Parallel Learning.

• List of Contributors ixSeries Preface xiAbout the Editor xiiiIntroduction: Culture, Oppression, and Privilege in Psychological Assessment 1Part I General Considerations 23One History of Cultural Bias in Assessment 25Two Social Justice in Psychological Assessment 39Three Collecting Cultural Information 69Four Fairness and Bias in Educational and Psychological Testing 87Five Culture and Cognitive Measures in Psychological Assessment 111Six Culture and Tests of Academic Achievement 137Seven Culture and Tests of Personality and Psychopathology 167Eight Culture and Assessment of Behavioral and Social-Emotional Functioning in Children 195Part II Assessing Specific Populations 237Nine Assessing Linguistically Diverse Clients 239Ten Assessing Black and African American Clients 269Eleven Assessing Latine Clients 293Twelve Assessing Asian American Clients 311Thirteen Assessing American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Clients 337Fourteen Assessing Sexually Minoritized Clients 353Fifteen Assessing Transgender and Gender Diverse Clients 379Sixteen Assessing Neurodivergent Clients 405Seventeen Assessing Economically Marginalized Clients 429Eighteen Assessing Clients with Physical and Medical Disabilities 467Nineteen Assessing “Non- Minoritized” Clients 503Index 529