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A best-seller in its first edition, the long-awaited second edition of Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients is here. Author Freddy Paniagua has expanded and updated his original work, offering effective, practical guidelines in dealing with issues that arise when dealing with culturally diverse clients. In this landmark volume, Paniagua addresses important questions, including:+ Is it a good idea to conduct your first meeting with an African American client differently than with an Asian American one? + Should you treat an American Indian client with the same therapeutic approach you would use to treat a Hispanic client?He also provides clinical suggestions for working with African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian clients. Some of the topics covered include a description of cultural variables that may affect assessment and treatment across groups; explanations of epidemiological mental health data across groups; a discussion on how to apply data from culturally specific, biased measures; and a description of many of the important factors to consider during the delivery of treatment. This practical volume also offers guidelines for the prevention of attrition. New to this edition is a chapter that deals with a summary of cultural variables in the DSM-IV, which will make this volume even more valuable to professionals and educators across the fields of clinical/counseling psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatric nursing, social work, multicultural counseling, ethnic studies, and behavioral psychology.

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• Minority, Multicultural, Race, and Ethnicity Concepts
• General Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Multicultural Groups
• Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of African American Clients
• Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Hispanic Clients
• Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Asian Clients
• Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of American Indian Clients
• Guidelines for the Prevention of Attrition of African American, American Indian, Asian and Hispanic Clients
• Guidelines for Evaluating and Using the Epidemiological Mental Health Literature with Multicultural Groups
• Using Culturally Biased Instruments
• Using Cultural Variables in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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Paniagua presents guidelines for providing services sensitive to cultural diversity, in a book that will be useful for anyone (therapists, human service providers, teachers, business personnel, etc.) who delivers services to people of varying cultural groups. Paniagua (Univ. of Texas Medical Branch), who teaches cross-cultural mental health seminars, discusses the impact of racism, poverty, discrimination, and cultural values on African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American clients. Guidelines for the initial interview, subsequent therapy, and prevention of attrition for each group and subgroup are detailed. Paniagua even suggests specific language to address sensitive issues. The discussion of the potential impact of group membership, acculturation level, language, and folk beliefs is thought provoking. Paniagua also suggests practical ways to diminish the impact of cultural bias in interpretation of psychological tests. Although some topics merited further exposition, and at times general principles rather than specific examples would have been helpful, this work brings together specific information that may be useful to those working with culturally diverse individuals. Upper-division undergraduate through professional.