Dana R H
Portland State University, Regional Research Institute for Human Services, Oregon 97201, USA.
Cult Divers Ment Health. 1998;4(3):165-84.
This article discusses the current status of projective assessment with Latino populations in the United States and suggests improvements in the quality of these services and in assessor cultural competencies. Major issues have included assessor bias, culturally inappropriate service delivery etiquette, psychometric inadequacies of many methods, and ignorance of relevant cultural issues in assessment practice, particularly cultural identity descriptions for personality study and cultural formulations to increase accuracy of clinical diagnoses. A rationale for projective assessment is followed by descriptions of several tests. Suggestions for reduction of bias include guidelines for projective assessment practice and recommendations for resources to improve reliability of interpretations. A research method that combines training with validation of the outcome of the entire assessment process is described.
本文讨论了美国针对拉丁裔人群的投射性评估的现状，并提出了提高这些服务质量和评估者文化能力的建议。主要问题包括评估者偏差、文化上不适当的服务提供礼仪、许多方法在心理测量上的不足，以及评估实践中对相关文化问题的忽视，特别是用于人格研究的文化身份描述和提高临床诊断准确性的文化表述。在阐述投射性评估的基本原理之后，介绍了几种测试。减少偏差的建议包括投射性评估实践指南以及关于提高解释可靠性的资源建议。还描述了一种将培训与整个评估过程结果验证相结合的研究方法。
