Multicultural Issues in Clinical Psychological Assessment

Abstract

This chapter provides a discussion of multicultural issues in clinical psychological assessment. The first two sections discuss best practice–related issues in assessment in relation to (1) clinical diagnosis and (2) psychological testing and assessment. For example, in terms of clinical diagnosis, the Cultural Formulation approach in DSM-5 represents the current major framework for conducting diagnosis with culturally diverse patients. At the same time, we also highlight the importance of cultural threats to validity. In the third and final section, we discuss the remaining challenges and the future directions related to multicultural issues in clinical psychological assessment. These challenges include the evaluation of cultural validity and measurement invariance of our psychological tests and measures. Future directions for the field involve achieving greater representation and generalizability in light of the WEIRD sample bias, that is, most of the psychological research has been conducted in Western Industrialized Rich Democracies.

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