Diversity-sensitive personality assessment

"Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment is a comprehensive guide for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client diversityethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, religion, regionalism, socioeconomic status, and disability statuscan impact assessment results, interpretation, and feedback. Chapters co-written by leading experts in the fields of diversity and personality assessment examine the influence of clinician, client, interpersonal, and professional factors within the assessment context. This richly informed and clinically useful volume encourages clinicians to delve into the complex ways in which individuals personal characteristics, backgrounds, and viewpoints intersect. This book fills an important gap in the personality assessment literature and is an essential resource for clinicians looking to move beyond surface-level understandings of diversity in assessment."--Provided by publisher.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Part I. Clinician Contexts; 1 The Role of Self-Reflection and Self-Assessment in the Psychological Assessment Process; Part II. Client Contexts; 2 Asking Difficult Questions: Client Definitions; 3 The Importance of Client Context; 4 Ethnicity and Personality Assessment; 5 Gender and Personality Assessment; 6 Queering Personality Assessment: Intersections between Personality Assessment, Sexual Orientations, and Gender Identity; 7 Religion and Personality Assessment.

8 Cognitive or Physical Disabilities and Personality Assessment9 Nationality and Personality Assessment; 10 Regionalism and Personality Assessment: A Matter of Place; 11 Age as Diversity in Psychological Assessment; 12 Socioeconomic Considerations in Personality Assessment; Part III. Interpersonal Contexts; 13 Assessment Contexts; 14 The Interpersonal Context of Assessment; 15 Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment and Diversity: The Complexity of Being Human; 16 Culturally Responsive Personality Assessment: Blending Competence with Humility; Part IV. Professional Context.

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