Full Description
This book presents psychological assessment and intervention in a cultural and relational context. A diverse range of contributors representing six continents and eleven countries write about their therapeutic interventions, all of which break the traditional assessor-as-expert-oriented framework and offer a creative adaptation in service delivery. A Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment model, including work with immigrant communities, and Indigenous modalities underscore individual and collective case illustrations highlighting equality in the roles of the provider and the receiver of services. The universality and uniqueness of culture are explored as a construct and through case material. Some chapters describe a partnership with a Eurocentric scientific model, while others adopt a purely community method, preserved with Indigenous language and subjective methodology. This volume brings together diverse therapeutic collaborative ideas, and recognizes relational, community, and cultural psychologies as integral to mainstream assessment and intervention literature. This book is essential for psychologists and clinicians internationally and graduate students.
Contents
Foreword, Jim Allen; Introduction: Culture, Collaboration, and Community, Barbara L. Mercer, Heather Macdonald, and Caroline Purves; Section I. Psychological Service Delivery; 1: Beginnings: Psychological Service Delivery, Barbara L. Mercer; 2: Paradigms for Well-Being: Ways of Knowing and Psychological Services, Barbara L. Mercer; Section II: Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment Models; 3: Assessment, Training, and Social Justice in Community Psychology, Heather Macdonald, Barbara L. Mercer, and Caroline Purves; 4: Assessment of Japanese Children, Hikikomori, Noriko Nakamura; 5: Growing Empathy with Complex Clients in Developing Countries: Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment in Latinoamérica, Ernesto Pais and Daniela Belloc; 6: Culture and Psychological Assessment in India, Kakli Gupta; Section III: Collaboration and Immigration; 7: Collaborative Assessment from a Transcultural Perspective: Cooperativa Crinali's Experience in Milan, Italy, Marta Breda, Nicole Fratellani, Francesca Grosso, Ilaria Oltolini, Benedetta Rubino, and Stefania Sharley; 8: "Different Cultures Wear Different Shoes!" Therapeutic Assessment with a 17-Year-Old Immigrant Boy in the Netherlands, Hilde De Saeger and Inge Van Laer; 9: Psychological Assessment of South Sudanese Persons in Mental Health Treatment in the United States, John Chuol Kuek; Section IV: New Measures, Alternative Interventions, and Indigenous Inclusion; 10: Singing to the Lions - A Program to Help Children Respond Effectively to Fear and Violence in Their Lives: Culturally Relevant Assessment and Intervention in Zimbabwe and Beyond, Jonathan Brakarsh, Lucy Y. Steinitz, Jane Chidzungu, Eugenia Mpande, and Lightwell Mpofu; 11: Indigenous Inclusion and Intervention: The Flight of Eagles, Shaun Hains; 12: The Interface: Western Tools and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Helen Milroy, Monique Platell, and Shraddha Kashyap
