Handbook of Multicultural Measures

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4129-7883-5
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 200 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 1269 g

"One of the most challenging tasks for multicultural researchers is finding psychometrically robust and practical measures. For years I have been waiting for one comprehensive source of empirically supported measures to help guide my work. Finally it has arrived! This Handbook of Multicultural Measures is the most complete and up-to-date compendium of promising instruments for research in all areas of cultural psychology. Graduate students and seasoned researchers who often spend weeks trying to locate appropriate measures for their research, will now identify the best measure for their study in one day, thanks to this complete and highly readable text."

—Joseph G. Ponterotto, Fordham University

Providing readers with cutting-edge details on multicultural instrumentation, theories, and research in the social, behavioral, and health-related fields, this Handbook offers extensive coverage of empirically-supported multicultural measurement instruments that span a wide variety of subject areas such as ethnic and racial identity, racism, disability, and gender roles. Readers learn how to differentiate among and identify appropriate research tools for a particular project. This Handbook provides clinical practitioners with a useful starting point in their search for multicultural assessment devices they can use with diverse clients to inform clinical treatment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamst, Glenn C.

Liang, Christopher T. H.

Der-Karabetian, Aghop

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Measures
1. Introduction
2. Testing, Measurement, and Culture
3. The Utility of Measurement: Application of the Multicultural Assessment-Intervention Process (MAIP) Model
4. Multicultural Competence Measures
5. Racial Identity and Ethnic Identity Measures
6. Acculturation Measures
7. Racism- and Prejudice- Related Measures
8. Gender-Related Measures
9. Sexual Orientation-Related Measures
10. Disability Attitude Measures
Appendix
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Gamst, Glenn C.
Glenn Gamst is Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at the University of La Verne, where he teaches the doctoral advanced statistics sequence. His research interests include the effects of multicultural variables on clinical outcome. Additional research interests focus on conversation memory and discourse processing. He received his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Arkansas.