Overview
- Summarizes cultural, linguistic, religious/spiritual, cognitive, neurological, and psychometric factors specific to Asian American clients.
- Focuses on Asian American population, allowing greater depth of coverage than is possible in the competing texts covering entire field of cross-cultural neuropsychology.
- Emphasizes practical information while also providing theoretical background information.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Issues of Diversity in Clinical Neuropsychology (ISSUESDIV)
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Neuropschology with Asians and Asian Americans
Practical and Theoretical Considerations
J. Mark Davis and Rik Carl D'Amato, editors
The challenge of cultural competence for health providers is more than the recognition of other ethnicities: it entails the balancing of group and individual factors to apply relevant information in diagnostic and therapeutic settings. Particularly in need of culturally appropriate services are Asians and Asian Americans, populations that are diverse, growing, and underserved by Asian practitioners.
Neuropsychology with Asians and Asian Americans takes cultural neuroscience to new levels in its variety and usefulness. Focusing on the largest groups of Far East and Southeast Asian descent, this leading-edge reference examines the influence of culture on psychological processes and identifies sociocultural factors as they influence neurological aspects of client presentation. This expert coverage goes beyond well-known constructs of "collectivism" and "family orientation" toward establishing an evidence base crucial to understanding, assessing, and treating Asian and Asian American clients, including:
- Linguistic factors and language assessment of Asians.
- Society and acculturation in Asian and Asian American communities
- Mental illness from Asian and Asian American perspectives.
- Understanding cognitive differences across the lifespan: comparing Eastern and Western cultures
- Clinical interviews and qualitative assessment with Asian clients
- Neuropsychological test selection with Asian clients
Unique in its scope and detail, Neuropsychology with Asians and Asian Americans is a necessary resource for neuropsychologists and rehabilitation specialists as well as social workers and clinical, counseling, and school psychologists.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The contributing authors address the most significant issues related to the neuropsychological assessment of Asian clients … . Although the book is written for the neuropsychologist, it is relevant to the assessment of Asian clients in general. … The book provides tremendously useful information about Asians and Asian Americans but also describes how to use that information to understand the individual.” (Vincent G. Tsushima, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (17), 2014)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neuropsychology of Asians and Asian-Americans
Book Subtitle: Practical and Theoretical Considerations
Editors: J. Mark Davis, Rik Carl D'Amato
Series Title: Issues of Diversity in Clinical Neuropsychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8075-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8074-7Published: 20 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8864-5Published: 14 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8075-4Published: 19 August 2013
Series ISSN: 1930-4633
Series E-ISSN: 1930-4641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 193
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Neuropsychology, Cross Cultural Psychology