Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment

Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment is a comprehensive guide for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client diversity―ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, religion, regionalism, socioeconomic status, and disability status―can impact assessment results, interpretation, and feedback. Chapters co-written by leading experts in the fields of diversity and personality assessment examine the influence of clinician, client, interpersonal, and professional factors within the assessment context. This richly informed and clinically useful volume encourages clinicians to delve into the complex ways in which individuals’ personal characteristics, backgrounds, and viewpoints intersect. This book fills an important gap in the personality assessment literature and is an essential resource for clinicians looking to move beyond surface-level understandings of diversity in assessment.

Steven R. Smith, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His clinical, research, and teaching interests include personality assessment, the psychology of men and boys, and the psychological needs of athletes.

Radhika Krishnamurthy, Psy.D., ABAP, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Florida Institute of Technology. She has co-authored two books on assessment using the MMPI-A, as well as several book chapters and journal articles on psychological assessment.