Multicultural Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment: Effective Evaluation for Diverse Populations

Multicultural Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment provides detailed descriptions of child maltreatment assessment and key strategies for culturally informed risk assessment in families.

The book presents a new model for evaluating families that includes cultural competence, a conceptualization of adequate parenting, and strategies for reflective decision making. Chapters address a range of factors including race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexuality. Ten case studies, each including discussion prompts, challenge the reader to apply forensic evaluation techniques for effective and ethical decision making in complex and ambiguous cases. Both experienced mental health providers and students will come away from the book with a deeper understanding of child maltreatment and its effects, models and modes of assessment, and factors that place families at greater risk.

Vassilia Binensztok, PhD, is an affiliate professor at The Family Institute at Northwestern University and a certified forensic mental health evaluator with extensive experience working in the child welfare system, the family court system, and counseling adult survivors of childhood trauma.