Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients: A Practical Guide - Paperback

by Freddy A. Paniagua (Author)

Now in its Fourth Edition, the best-selling Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients offers effective, practical guidelines in working with culturally diverse clients. Author and clinician Freddy A. Paniagua first summarizes general guidelines that clinicians can apply when assessing, diagnosing, or treating culturally diverse clients, but also addresses clinical work with specific culturally diverse groups such as African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian clients. Two new chapters in this edition deal with the assessment, diagnoses, and treatment of emotional problems experienced by LGBT and older adult clientsfrom these culturally diverse groups.

Author Biography

Freddy Paniagua (Ph.D. University of Kansas; post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Society at the University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston. He teaches cross cultural mental health seminars with an emphasis on the assessment and treatment of minority clients. In 1989, he received a 6-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to provide training to mental health professionals representing culturally diverse groups with and emphasis on the assessment and treatment of emotionally disturbed clients.