Full Description
This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their parents. "Assessing Children in the Urban Community" presents a semi-structured form of collaborative psychological assessment, designed to help clients gain new insights and make changes in their lives. Traditional psychological assessment focuses on diagnosis and treatment but has been slow to include contextual elements, particularly social and cultural contexts into the assessment process and psychological report.
Clients receiving services in a community psychology clinic pay for their treatment through state welfare coverage. They cannot choose their providers, they cannot always determine the length and course of their mental health care, they often do not have access to transportation to begin services, to continue them, or to take advantage of follow-up recommendations. The Therapeutic Assessment model is particularly adaptable to community psychology because it allows maximum interaction in the assessment process and promotes participation and collaboration in an often dis-empowering system.
This book will be relevant to clinical psychologists, community psychologists, social workers, family therapists, graduate students in psychology, social work, marriage and family therapists, and counseling programs.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements About the Editors Contributors Assessing Children in the Urban Community: Introduction Barbara L. Mercer Section I. Introduction to Community Psychology 1.Community Psychology: Managed Care, Communications and Policy Barbara L. Mercer 2.Psychological Assessment of Children in a Community Mental Health Clinic Barbara L. Mercer 3.A Descriptive Analysis of Cognitive and Rorschach Variables of Children in a Community Mental Health Clinic Hasse Leonard-Pagel and Barbara L. Mercer 4. Assessment-Driven Intervention for Youth and Families in Community Service Delivery Systems Justin D. Smith, Anne Mauricio, and Elizabeth Stormshak Section II. The Cultural Environment: Theory and Practice Part 1: Cultural Experiences in Psychological Assessment 5.Collaborative Assessment and Social Justice Heather Macdonald and Christy Hobza 6. Unspeakable Fears: Exploring Trauma for Undocumented Immigrants Cinthya Chin Herrera 7. The Ambiguous Other: Reflections on Race and Culture in the Assessment Relationship Tricia Fong 8.Working with Countertransference Reactions to Treatment Team Members in Collaborative Assessments Lisa M. Nakamura Part 2. Cultural Experiences in Supervision and Training 9. Supervision: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Hasse Leonard-Pagel 10. Why Are You Crying? It Didn't Happen to You? Vicarious Trauma, Assessment and Supervision Caroline Purves 11. Training Assessors in Therapeutic Assessment Marianne E. Haydel Walsh, Barbara L. Mercer, and Erin Rosenblatt 12. Surface Ripples or Deep Waters? Finding the Level fo
