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Now in its Fourth Edition, the best-selling Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients offers effective, practical guidelines in working with culturally diverse clients. Author and clinician Freddy A. Paniagua first summarizes general guidelines that clinicians can apply when assessing, diagnosing, or treating culturally diverse clients, but also addresses clinical work with specific culturally diverse groups such as African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian clients. Two new chapters in this edition deal with the assessment, diagnoses, and treatment of emotional problems experienced by LGBT and older adult clientsfrom these culturally diverse groups.
General Guidelines for the Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Culturally Diverse Clients
General Guidelines for the Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Culturally Diverse Clients
This chapter summarizes general guidelines and recommendations found in the literature concerning mental health practitioners' assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of clients from all the culturally diverse groups discussed in this book (e.g., Ancis, 2003; Cuéllar & Paniagua, 2000; Dana, 1993a; Gallardo, Yeh, Trimble, & Parham, 2012; Ho, 1987, 1992; Ivey, Ivey, & Simek-Morgan, 1996; Pedersen, 1997; Pedersen, Draguns, Lonner, & Trimble, 2008; Ponterotto, Casas, Suzuki, & Alexander 2010). Clinicians working with clients from the various communities described in this book are also strongly encouraged to review the American Psychological Association (2003) “Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for ...
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