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Multicultural Understanding of Child And Adolescent Psychopathology
Implications for Mental Health Assessment
Achenbach, Thomas M.
Rescorla, Leslie A.
Hardcover
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BOOK SUMMARY
Around the world, many immigrant and minority children are immersed in mental health, social welfare, and educational systems that are ill equipped to evaluate and help them. This important volume synthesizes an array of international findings to broaden

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AUTHOR BIO
Thomas M. Achenbach, PhD, is Director of the Center for Children, Youth, and Families at the University of Vermont. Educated at Yale and the University of Minnesota, he taught at Yale and did research at the National Institute of Mental Health. He has been a DAAD Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, an SSRC Fellow at Jean Piagets Centre dEpistémologie Génétique, Chair of the American Psychological Associations Task Force on Classification of Childrens Behavior, and a member of the American Psychiatric Associations Advisory Committee on DSM-III-R. He has given over 230 presentations in 30 countries and has authored over 250 publications. Assessment instruments developed by Dr. Achenbach and colleagues have been translated into 74 languages and have yielded findings reported in over 6,000 publications from 67 cultures. Leslie A. Rescorla, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Director of the Child Study Institute, and Director of Early Childhood Programs at Bryn Mawr College. Educated at Radcliffe, the London School of Economics, and Yale, she obtained her clinical training at the Yale Child Study Center, the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Rescorla developed the Language Development Survey, a screening tool for language delay in toddlers. She has presented findings from her 15-year longitudinal study on late talkers in numerous publications. In addition to her research on language delays in young children and in longitudinal patterns of school achievement, Dr. Rescorla conducts research on empirically based assessment of emotional and behavioral problems in children, adolescents, and adults.

BOOK REVIEWS
"This significant book treats very complicated issues in a succinct, understandable way. To my knowledge, there are no authors at present who have a better understanding of these issues than Achenbach and Rescorla. The main strength of the book is its comprehensive integration of multicultural findings from both empirically based and diagnostically based assessment approaches. In the era of globalization and increasing cultural diversity, this text is sure to be consulted again and again by those concerned with understanding, assessing, preventing, and treating child psychopathology."--Frank C. Verhulst, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of
Child Psychology and Psychiatry

"This is an excellent book that combines what are soon to become dominant themes in the field of psychopathology; namely, evidence-based assessment and multicultural perspectives. Culture, diversity, and group identity are not sidelights or afterthoughts, but must be the point of departure for understanding, evaluating, and treating clinical problems; for teaching students; and for training researchers. Broad in its coverage, the book provides a conceptual view of child and adolescent assessment, a review of key measures and their findings, and a statement of important methodological issues in evaluating clinical disorders. The volume's approach and findings will greatly influence views about childhood disorders as well as future research. Achenbach and Rescorla have produced a scholarly, informative, and authoritative text."--Alan E. Kazdin, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine

"Achenbach and Rescorla provide us with an excellent guidebook for approaching child and adolescent psychopathology from a multicultural perspective. A unique contribution to empirically grounded cross-cultural research, this book will have a profound impact on future research and on clinical practice involving different ethnocultural populations. The integration of the empirical and diagnostic approaches to assessment makes this an essential text for those involved in cross-cultural research and clinical work at any level."--HÉctor R. Bird, MD, Columbia University

"From distinguished authors with impressive scientific credentials--including the developer of one of the world's most widely disseminated measures of child psychopathology--this book is a key resource for students, researchers, and clinical professionals. Debates about the best approaches to cross-cultural and transnational assessment will continue for decades. These debates will doubtless be enriched by this important work."--John R. Weisz, PhD, Harvard University

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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1593853483
ISBN(13-digit): 9781593853488
Dewey Decimal: 618.92/89
Library of Congress: 2006022956
Book Publisher: Guilford Pubn
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 322

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