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OverviewResearchers and practitioners who work with Asian Americans confront fundamental questions, such as the cultural validity of the diagnostic tools and systems that are available to them, how to measure dynamic constructs like acculturation and identity in ways that meaningfully inform their work, and how to assess the cultural competence of care systems and training programmes. This is a state-of-the-art compendium of the conceptual issues, empirical literature, methodological approaches, and practice guidelines for conducting culturally informed assessments of Asian Americans, and for assessing provider cultural competency within individuals and systems. The volume draws upon the expertise of many of the leading experts in Asian American and multicultural mental health to provide a resource for students and professionals in a wide range of disciplines including clinical psychology, medical anthropology, psychiatry, cross-cultural psychology, multicultural counselling, ethnic minority psychology, sociology, social work, counsellor education, counseling psychology, and more. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Kurasaki , Sumie Okazaki , Stanley SuePublisher: Springer Science+Business Media Imprint: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Edition: 2002 ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.510kg ISBN: 9780306472688ISBN 10: 0306472686 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 31 August 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Section I: Cultural Relevance of Diagnostic Categories: A Conceptual Discussion.- 2. Understanding the Rates and Distribution of Mental Disorders.- 3. Examining the Usefulness of DSM-IV.- 4. Toward a New Paradigm: A Cultural Systems Approach.- 5. Challenging the Myth of a Culture Free Nosological System.- Section II: Theories of Relevant Sociocultural Variables.- 6. Assessing Acculturation and Cultural Variables.- 7. Models of Cultural Orientation: Differences Between American-born and Overseas-born Asians.- 8. Cultural Variations in Self-Construal as a Mediator of Distress and Well-being.- 9. The Use of Culturally-Based Variables in Assessment: Studies on Loss of Face.- Section III: Issues of Psychometric Equivalence Across Cultures.- 10. Universal and Indigenous Dimensions of Chinese Personality.- 11. Interpreting Cultural Variations in Cognitive Profiles.- 12. The Conception of Depression in Chinese Americans.- 13. Assessing Asian and Asian American Parenting: A Review of the Literature.- Section IV: Culturally Informed Assessment, Research, and Practice.- 14. Assessing Psychiatric Prevalence Rates Among Asian Americans.- 15. The Place of Ethnographic Understanding in the Assessment of 219 Asian American Mental Health.- 16. The Clinical Assessment of Asian American Children.- 17. Examining the Role of Culture in Educational Assessment.- 18. A Cultural Accommodation Approach to Career Assessment with Asian Americans.- 19. Theory and Method of Multicultural Counseling Competency Assessment.- 20. Assessment of Cultural Competence in Mental Health Systems of Care for Asian Americans.- Section V: Conclusions.- 21. Advances in the Scientific Study of Asian Americans.- Author Index.ReviewsThe book will be most useful to researchers in psychology and psychiatry who wish to use psychometric measures with patients, but it will also be useful to trainees and training directors who need to review the literature on the assessment of Asian Americans as well as to graduate students learning about multicultural issues in assessment. ...useful for understanding how measures that were developed for Western patients need to be adapted for use with Asian Americans... I enjoyed Asian American Mental Health very much, as the overall tone is to explain the research that has already been conducted on many topics, to explore the limitations of this research, and to suggest directions for further research. <br>(Psychiatric Services, 54: 8 (2003) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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