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Clinical neuropsychologists can encounter various challenges when conducting a cross-cultural evaluation. This book offers practical advice for developing a cultural context to better understand clients and reduce assessment bias, enhance test validity, and optimize treatment recommendations. When conducting a neuropsychological evaluation, the clinician must develop a contextual knowledge base to fully understand a client’s current functioning. Doing so can be especially challenging when the client’s cultural background differs from that of the evaluator. This book helps neuropsychologists enhance their cultural competency, avoid biased assessments, and optimize outcomes for culturally different clients. The author describes strategies for improving communication, selecting valid tests, interpreting results, estimating premorbid functioning, working with translators, and making effective treatment recommendations. "While experienced neuropsychologists may be well-versed in the standard process of conducting a neuropsychological evaluation, they may still have difficulty determining a client's current functioning, given his or her unique cultural context. This is especially true when the client and the clinician do not share the same ethnic background and language fluency. In such cases, the clinician risks administering a biased assessment with invalid tests, misinterpreted data, and inappropriate -- if not harmful -- treatment recommendations. Daryl Fujii helps neuropsychologists enhance their cultural competence by providing readers with a broad framework for cultivating an ethnorelative -- instead of an ethnocentric -- view of clients. He begins by reviewing relevant research and professional guidelines that explain how cultural factors can impact a neuropsychological evaluation. Then he outlines preliminary strategies for establishing rapport and improving communication with clients, estimating their premorbid functioning, gathering pertinent data, selecting and translating appropriate tests, and working with interpreters. The closing chapters present a detailed case example that demonstrates a pre-assessment interview, test interpretation, report writing, treatment recommendations, and a final feedback session with the client"--Publicity materials. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Foundations: Attitudes, Perspective, and Conceptual Overview Chapter 1 A Respect for Culture Chapter 2 Conceptual Guidelines: APA, AACN, AERA, and NCMA Part II Preparation Chapter 3 Creating a Cultural Context Chapter 4 Conceptualizing Goals and Cultural Considerations Chapter 5 Estimating Premorbid Functioning Chapter 6 Strategies for Test Selection and Data Collection Chapter 7 A Mini-Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests With Cross-Cultural Validity Part III Evaluation and Report Writing Chapter 8 Conducting the Evaluation Chapter 9 Interpretation and Case Formulation Chapter 10 Writing the Report and Providing Feedback Appendix: Cultural Resources References Index About the Author Part 1. Foundations: Attitudes, Perspective, And Conceptual Overview -- A Respect For Culture -- Conceptual Guidelines: Apa, Aacn, Aera, And Ncma -- Part 2. Preparation -- Creating A Cultural Context -- Conceptualizing Goals And Cultural Considerations -- Estimating Premorbid Functioning -- Strategies For Test Selection And Data Collection -- A Mini-compendium Of Neuropsychological Tests With Cross Cultural Validity -- Conducting The Evaluation -- Part 3. Conducting The Evaluation -- Interpretation And Case Formulation -- Writing The Report And Providing Feedback. Daryl Fujii. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.