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Multicultural Assessment:

Reexamination, Reconceptualization, and Practical Application

Indiana University, cridley{at}indiana.edu

Lisa C. Li

Indiana University

Carrie L. Hill

Indiana University

Current suggestions for assessing clients across cultures fail to adequately aid the average practitioner This failure arises from unresolved issues and problems, interfering with the ability of most counselors and therapists to render sound clinical judgments. In response to these issues and problems, a procedure is described that sensitizes counselors to cultural data in assessment and case conceptualization. Grounded in a guiding philosophy of assessment, the Multicultural Assessment Procedure (MAP) was developed in consideration of a number of relevant critical issues. The procedure entails identifying cultural data through multiple methods of data collection, interpreting cultural data to formulate a working hypothesis, incorporating cultural data with other relevant clinical information to test the working hypothesis, and arriving at a sound (i.e., comprehensive and accurate) assessment decision. A case illustration demonstrates how to use the proposed procedure.

The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 26, No. 6, 827-910 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0011000098266001


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