Assessing and treating culturally diverse clients
Subtitle: a practical guide
By: Freddy A. Paniagua.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Multicultural aspects of counseling series ;; v. 4
Publisher: Sage
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Cross-cultural counseling -- United States.
Description: Author Freddy A. Paniagua has expanded and updated his original work, offering effective, practical guidelines in dealing with issues that arise when dealing with culturally diverse clientele. Paniagua provides clinical suggestions for working with African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian clients.

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.
Table of contents: title: Minority, multicultural, race, and ethnicity concepts; title: General guidelines for the assessment and treatment of multicultural groups; title: Guidelines for the assessment and treatment of African American clients; title: Guidelines for the assessment and treatment of Hispanic clients; title: Guidelines for the assessment and treatment of Asian clients; title: Guidelines for the assessment and treatment of American Indian clients; title: Guidelines for the prevention of attrition of African American, American Indian, Asian, and Hispanic clients; title: Guidelines for evaluating and using the epidemiological mental health literature with multicultural groups; title: Using culturally biased instruments; title: Using cultural variables in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.