Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Assessment: Theory and Practice
Author(s): Victor Nell
This is aimed at neuropsychologists who are called upon to assess culturally different clients. In Minneapolis as in Oslo, migrant and refugee minorities raise assessment and test validity problems that cannot be ignored. Suburbs and workplaces that were culturally and linguistically homogenous a few years ago are no longer. In the developing countries of the southern hemisphere, the problems are pervasive and demand a solution even more imperatively. To deal realistically with the problem of doing neuropsychological assessment without norms, the author describes the principles of a "behavioural neuropsychology", and then sets out interview, test and interpretation methods that should allow clinicians to produce valid and prognostically accurate assessments.
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Contents: Preface. Part I: The Seduction of Universals. Westernization, Racism, and the Politics of Culture. The Failure of Universalism: Neuropsychological Test Score Differences Across Countries and Cultures. Part II: Theoretical Foundations of Cross-Cultural Assessment. Radical Environmentalism: Vygotsky, Luria, and the Historical Determination of Consciousness. The Nature of Intelligence: The IQ Controversy in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Constructs, Norms, and the Problem of Comparability. A Behavioral Frame: Neuropsychology as a Transferrable Technology. Part III: The Practice of Cross-Cultural Assessment. The Cardinal Manifestations of Traumatic Brain Injury. Realism and Intensity in the Diagnostic Interview. Buds, Flowers, Fruits: Potential, Performance, and Test Administration. A Core Test Battery. Structuring Behavioral Reports. Appendices.
General Fields
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- : Taylor & Francis Inc
- : Psychology Press
- : December 1999
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Victor Nell
- : Paperback
- : 616.8047
- : 312
- : 1, black & white illustrations
