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For an emotional/behavioral health assessment to be useful and empowering, it needs to be accurate and comprehensive, grounded in the client’s culture, responsive to their life circumstances, and appropriate for the given context and purpose. This is no easy task. We posit that integrating clinical, cultural, and community psychology allows clinicians across many fields to conduct assessments more effectively. In this chapter, we present four principles that flow from the fields’ integration: (1) consistently collaborate and communicate with all stakeholders, including the client, their caregiver(s), and other helping professionals; (2) remember the purpose of the evaluation—and still respond flexibly to what is happening in the interview and emergent circumstances; (3) keep an open mind but not an empty head when developing and testing out hypotheses to effectively conceptualize the client; and (4) always consider culture and context by situating cases in a socioecological model when developing and engaging in interviewing procedures, gathering information, conceptualizing cases, selecting tests and measures, writing reports, and mapping out recommendations. A case illustrates the utility of these principles.

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Principles of Mental Health Assessment from a Clinical-Community-Cultural Psychology Framework

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    2026年

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  • Sara L. Buckingham,
  • Gerald D. Oster

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For an emotional/behavioral health assessment to be useful and empowering, it needs to be accurate and comprehensive, grounded in the client’s culture, responsive to their life circumstances, and appropriate for the given context and purpose. This is no easy task. We posit that integrating clinical, cultural, and community psychology allows clinicians across many fields to conduct assessments more effectively. In this chapter, we present four principles that flow from the fields’ integration: (1) consistently collaborate and communicate with all stakeholders, including the client, their caregiver(s), and other helping professionals; (2) remember the purpose of the evaluation—and still respond flexibly to what is happening in the interview and emergent circumstances; (3) keep an open mind but not an empty head when developing and testing out hypotheses to effectively conceptualize the client; and (4) always consider culture and context by situating cases in a socioecological model when developing and engaging in interviewing procedures, gathering information, conceptualizing cases, selecting tests and measures, writing reports, and mapping out recommendations. A case illustrates the utility of these principles.