APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology
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Part of the landmark APA Handbooks in Psychology® Series from APA
Consistent with the goals for the APA Handbooks in Psychology™ series, the purpose of the two-volume APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology is to present the best science and best practice within this cross-cutting perspective of psychology.
Volume 1, covering theory and research, comprises chapters concerning conceptual and professional issues, ethnic minority research and methods, individual differences, social and developmental process, and community and organizational perspectives.
Volume 2, focusing on applications and training, includes chapters covering historical and professional perspectives; stress, adjustment, and positive psychology; diagnosis and assessment; psychopathology; clinical interventions; applied and preventive psychology; and training and supervision.
Beyond providing a solid historical context, the handbook offers an up-to-date review across the major domains of psychology from a multicultural perspective.
Volume 1. Theory and Research
Editorial Board
About the Editor-in-Chief
Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction
Part I. Conceptual and Professional Issues
- Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Revolution: The Successful Establishment of Multicultural Psychology
Christine C. Iijima Hall - Chapter 2: An Updated Profile of Ethnic Minority Psychology: A Pipeline Perspective
Jessica L. Kohout, William E. Pate II, and Kenneth I. Maton - Chapter 3: On Teaching Multicultural Psychology
Dana S. Dunn and Elliott D. Hammer - Chapter 4: Ethical Matters and Contentions in the Principled Conduct of Research With Ethnocultural Communities
Joseph E. Trimble, María Scharrón-del Río, and Denise M. Casillas
Part II. Ethnic Minority Research and Methods
- Chapter 5: A Set of Guiding Principles to Advance Multicultural Psychology and Its Major Concepts
E. J. R. David, Sumie Okazaki, and Danielle Giroux - Chapter 6: Methodological Challenges in Research With Ethnic, Racial, and Ethnocultural Groups
Guillermo Bernal, Eduardo Cumba-Avilés, and Natalie Rodríguez-Quintana - Chapter 7: Recent Statistical Advances
Barbara M. Byrne - Chapter 8: Multicultural Assessment: Individual and Contextual Dynamic Sizing
Gargi Roysircar - Chapter 9: Secondary Analysis of Datasets in Multicultural Research
M. Brent Donnellan and Richard E. Lucas
Part III. Individual Differences
- Chapter 10: Ethnic and Racial Identity
Tiffany Yip, Sara Douglass, and Robert M. Sellers - Chapter 11: Acculturation Research: Challenges, Complexities, and Possibilities
Dina Birman and Corrina D. Simon - Chapter 12: Racial and Ethnic Gaps in the School Performance of Latino, African American, and White Students
Beth Kurtz-Costes, Akilah D. Swinton, and Olivenne D. Skinner - Chapter 13: Assessing Intelligence in a Cultural Context
Lisa A. Suzuki, Samar Naqvi, and Jill S. Hill - Chapter 14: Motivation and Emotion in Multicultural Psychology
Karoline Evans, Daisung Jang, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein - Chapter 15: Personality Across Cultures: A Critical Analysis of Big Five Research and Current Directions
Gustavo Carlo, George P. Knight, Scott C. Roesch, Deanna Opal, and Alexandra Davis - Chapter 16: Health and Well-Being
James Allen, Inna D. Rivkin, and Ellen D. S. Lopez - Chapter 17: Lamarck Was Right: Nurturing Nature and Naturing Nurture
Zieanna Chang and Vivian Ota Wang
Part IV. Social and Developmental Process
- Chapter 18: Stereotypes and Intergroup Attitudes
Thierry Devos - Chapter 19: Prejudice and Racism
Alexander M. Czopp, Aimee Y. Mark, and Amy S. Walzer - Chapter 20: An Intersectional Framework for a Multicultural Analysis of Gender
Pamela Trotman Reid, Linwood J. Lewis, and Karen Fraser Wyche - Chapter 21: Sexual Orientation
Maria Cecilia Zea and Nadine Nakamura - Chapter 22: Children and Families
Mark W. Roosa, Nancy A. Gonzales, George P. Knight, and Danyel A. Vargas - Chapter 23: Minority Adults and Elders in the United States
Jeannette L. Johnson
Part V. Community and Organizational Perspectives
- Chapter 24: Work and Career Development: Theory and Research
Frederick T. L. Leong, Paul J. Hartung, and Marina Pearce - Chapter 25: Organizational Psychology
Bryan L. Dawson, C. Douglas Johnson, and Bernardo M. Ferdman - Chapter 26: The Criminal Justice System: Cultural Considerations and Correcting Corrections
Dominica F. McBride, Carl C. Bell, and April I. Sanford - Chapter 27: Immigrants and Refugees
Frederic Bemak and Rita Chi-Ying Chung - Chapter 28: Religion and Spirituality
Mary Fukuyama, Ana Puig, Adrienne Baggs, and Cheryl Pence Wolf - Chapter 29: Ecological Theory and Research in Multicultural Psychology: A Community Psychology Perspective
Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Fabricio Balcazar, Manuel Garcia-Ramirez, and Tina Taylor-Ritzler
Volume 2. Applications and Training
Editorial Board
Part I. Historical and Professional Perspectives
- Chapter 1: Making Psychology Inclusive: A History of Education and Training for Diversity in American Psychology
Wade E. Pickren and Chelsie Burchett - Chapter 2: Multicultural Competencies: A Dynamic Paradigm for the 21st Century
Patricia Arredondo and Zoila G. Tovar-Blank - Chapter 3: Multicultural Ethics in Professional Psychology Practice, Consulting, and Training
Celia B. Fisher - Chapter 4: Evidence-Based Practice
Gordon C. Nagayama Hall and Alicia H. Yee
Part II. Stress, Adjustment, and Positive Psychology
- Chapter 5: A Cultural and Contextual Model of Coping
Puncky Paul Heppner, Meifen Wei, Helen A. Neville, and Marlen Kanagui-Muñoz - Chapter 6: Personal Adjustment of Ethnic Minority Populations Across the Life Span by Gender as Measured by Stress and Coping
Michi Fu, Yin-Chen Shen, and Genevive Marquez - Chapter 7: Cultural Considerations in Health Research: A Psychological Perspective
Nathan S. Consedine and José A. Soto - Chapter 8: Positive Psychology: Current Knowledge, Multicultural Considerations, and the Future of the Movement
Christina A. Downey and Edward C. Chang
Part III. Diagnosis and Assessment
- Chapter 9: Multicultural Issues in the Clinical Interview and Diagnostic Process
Carmela Alcántara and Joseph P. Gone - Chapter 10: Clinical Tests and Assessment: Ethnocultural and Linguistic Bias in Mental Health Evaluation of Latinos
Robert G. Malgady, Reuben M. Castagno, and John A. Cardinale - Chapter 11: Personality Tests and Psychological Science: Instruments, Populations, Practice
Richard H. Dana - Chapter 12: Educational Assessment for the 21st Century: Multicultural Considerations
A. Wade Boykin - Chapter 13: Career Assessment
Consuelo Arbona - Chapter 14: Neuropsychological Evaluation of Culturally Diverse Populations
Mari S. Davies, Tony L. Strickland, and Michael Cao - Chapter 15: Personnel Selection
Michelle R. Hebl, Juan M. Madera, and Larry R. Martinez
Part IV. Psychopathology
- Chapter 16: Depression in Multicultural Populations
Dana C. Jack, Alisha Ali, and Sandra Dias - Chapter 17: Anxiety Disorders
Gayle Y. Iwamasa and Shilpa M. P. Regan - Chapter 18: The Cultural Shaping of Personality Disorder
Andrew G. Ryder, Jessica Dere, Jiahong Sun, and Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton - Chapter 19: Substance Abuse
Fred Beauvais - Chapter 20: Serious Mental Illness
Amy Weisman de Mamani, Kayla Gurak, and Giulia Suro - Chapter 21: Suicide
David B. Goldston, Bridget E. Weller, and Otima Doyle - Chapter 22: Psychological Perspectives on Culture, Violence, and Intergroup Animus: Evolving Traditions in the Bonds That Tie and Hate
Edward Dunbar and Amalio Blanco
Part V. Clinical Interventions
- Chapter 23: Multicultural Career Counseling
Lisa Y. Flores and Denise H. Bike - Chapter 24: Multicultural Psychotherapy
Lillian Comas-Díaz - Chapter 25: Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
Arthur M. Nezu, Lauren M. Greenberg, and Christine Maguth Nezu - Chapter 26: Substance Abuse Treatments
Lula A. Beatty and Tamara D. Willis - Chapter 27: Couple and Marital Therapy: The Complement and Expansion Provided by Multicultural Approaches
Shalonda Kelly, Ranjit Bhagwat, Pacita Maynigo, and Elizabeth Moses - Chapter 28: Multicultural Family Therapy
Maritza Gallardo-Cooper and Angela L. Zapata
Part VI. Applied and Preventive Psychology
- Chapter 29: Help-Seeking and Service Utilization
Oanh L. Meyer and David T. Takeuchi - Chapter 30: School and Academic Interventions
Frank C. Worrell - Chapter 31: Community Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence
Krista M. Chronister, Naomi B. Knoble, and Harpreet K. Bahia - Chapter 32: Challenge of HIV Prevention in Diverse Communities
Norweeta G. Milburn, Marguerita Lightfoot, and Victoria C. Rueda - Chapter 33: Reducing Racism and Prejudice
Michael A. Zárate, Stephanie A. Quezada, Jessica M. Shenberger, and Amber K. Lupo - Chapter 34: Prevention of Substance Abuse in Ethnic Minority Youth
Felipe González Castro, Joshua G. Kellison, and William R. Corbin - Chapter 35: Multicultural and International Issues in Organizational Change and Development
Rodney L. Lowman
Part VII. Training and Supervision
- Chapter 36: Multicultural Competencies in Psychotherapy Supervision
Arpana G. Inman and Nicholas Ladany - Chapter 37: Multicultural Training Models and Curriculum
Margaret R. Rogers and Elisabeth C. O'Bryon
Index
Frederick T. L. Leong, PhD, is professor of psychology and psychiatry at Michigan State University. He is a faculty member in the organizational and clinical psychology programs. He is also the director of the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research at Michigan State.
He has authored or coauthored more than 240 journal articles and book chapters and has edited or coedited 14 books. He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Counseling as well as the editor of the APA Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) book series on cultural, racial and ethnic psychology. He is the founding editor of the Asian American Journal of Psychology and associate editor of the American Psychologist.
Dr. Leong is a fellow of APA (Divisions 1, 2, 5, 12, 17, 29, 45, 52), the Association for Psychological Science, the Asian American Psychological Association, and the International Academy for Intercultural Research.
His major research interests center around culture and mental health, cross-cultural psychotherapy (especially with Asians and Asian Americans), cultural and personality factors related to career choice, work adjustment, and occupational stress.
He is past president of APA Division 45, the Asian American Psychological Association, and of APA Division 12 Section VI (Clinical Psychology of Ethnic Minorities).
He received the APA award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology as well as the Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology from APA Division 12. He is also the recipient of the APA Division 45 Distinguished Contributions to Research award, the Division 17 International Section's Lifetime Achievement award, and the APA Minority Fellowship Program's Dalmas Taylor Distinguished Contributions award.
The Handbook is an excellent representation of the emergence, evolution, and current status of the specialty.
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