Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment

<p><em>Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment</em> is a comprehensive guide for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client diversity—ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, religion, regionalism, socioeconomic status, and disability status—can 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.</p> <p>Foreword <b>I. Clinician Contexts</b> 1. The Role of Self-Reflection and Self-Assessment in the Psychological Assessment Process, <i>Louise Baca and Steven R. Smith</i> <b>II. Client Contexts</b> 2. Asking Difficult Questions: Client Definitions, <i>David M. Cimbora and Radhika Krishnamurthy</i> 3. The Importance of Client Context, <i>David M. Cimbora and Radhika Krishnamurthy</i> 4. Ethnicity and Personality Assessment, <i>Joyce Chu, Lamisha Syeda Muquit, Vedant Agrawal, and Radhika Krishnamurthy</i> 5. Gender and Personality Assessment, <i>Kathleen Malloy and Radhika Krishnamurthy</i> 6. Queering Personality Assessment: Intersections between Personality Assessment, Sexual Orientations, and Gender Identity, <i>Theodore R. Burnes and Steven R. Smith</i> 7. Religion and Personality Assessment, <i>Tania Abouezzeddine, Peter C. Hill, Clark D. Campbell, Steven R. Smith</i> 8. Cognitive or Physical Disabilities and Personality Assessment, <i>Merith Cosden, Sara Communale, Lindsey Liles, Steven R. Smith</i> 9. Nationality and Personality Assessment, <i>Gargi Roysircar and Radhika Krishnamurthy</i> 10. Regionalism and Personality Assessment: A Matter of Place, <i>Shannon McClain, Collette Chapman-Hilliard, and Steven R. Smith</i> 11. Age as Diversity in Psychological Assessment, <i>Verónica Portillo Reyes, Radhika Krishnamurthy, and Antonio Puente</i> 12. Socio-Economic Considerations in Personality Assessment, <i>Claudia Porras Pyland, Sally D. Stabb, and Steven R. Smith</i> <b>III. Interpersonal Contexts</b> 13. Assessment Contexts, <i>Matthew R. Baity, Alexander L. Hsieh, and Samantha M. Swanson</i> 14. The Interpersonal Context of Assessment, <i>Aaron Estrada</i> 15. Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment and Diversity: The Complexity of Being Human, <i>Hale Martin</i> 16. Culturally-Responsive Personality Assessment: Blending Competence with Humility, <i>Hadas Pade</i> <b>IV. Professional Contexts</b> 17. Writing for an N of 1: Cultural Competence in Personality Assessment Report Writing, <i>Collette Chapman-Hilliard, Shannon McClain, Alissa Sherry, Susan Broyles, and Stacey Jackson</i> 18. Ethics in Diversity-Sensitive Assessment, <i>Virginia Brabender</i> 19. Supervision and Training of Personality Assessment with Multicultural and Diverse Clients, <i>Jed Yalof</i> 20. Evidence-Based Practice in Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment, <i>Steven R. Smith and Radhika Krishnamurthy</i></p>