Multicultural understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology : implications for mental health assessment
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Multicultural understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology : implications for mental health assessment
Guilford Press, c2007
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Bibliography: p. 283-308
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Around the world, many immigrant and minority children are immersed in mental health, social welfare, and educational systems that are ill equipped to evaluate and help them. This important volume synthesizes an array of international findings to broaden the knowledge base on cultural variations in children's emotional and behavioral problems. Drawing on both empirically based and diagnostically based approaches, the authors examine similarities and differences in the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of particular disorders. They distinguish between culture-specific and more general problems in adaptation, identify instruments and procedures that are particularly suited to multicultural assessment, and discuss the implications for developing more effective services.
Table of Contents
1. Why Should We Do Multicultural Research on Children's Problems?
2. The Empirically Based Bottom-Up Approach to Psychopathology
3. The Diagnostically Based Top-Down Approach to Psychopathology
4. Multicultural Findings on Scores Obtained with Empirically Based Assessment Instruments
5. Multicultural Findings on Correlates of Empirically Based Scale Scores
6. Multicultural Findings on Patterns of Problems in Empirically Based Assessment Instruments
7. Multicultural Findings on the Prevalence of Diagnostically Based Disorders
8. Multicultural Findings on Correlates and Comorbidity of Diagnostically Based Disorders
9. Comparisons of Empirically Based and Diagnostically Based Findings
10. Meeting Challenges Posed by Multicultural Research on Children's Problems
11. Contributions of Multicultural Research to Understanding, Assessing, Preventing, and Treating Child Psychopathology
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