Conducting a Culturally Informed Neuropsychological Evaluation

Daryl Fujii, PhD, ABPP-CN, is a staff neuropsychologist at the Veterans Affairs Pacific Island Health Care Services Community Living Center and adjunct faculty for the Department of Psychiatry, University of Hawaii. He received his PhD from the University of Wyoming in 1991, interned at the Sepulveda Veterans Administration Medical Center, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. Dr. Fujii earned his diplomate in clinical neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology in 1999 and was elected to fellow status of APA in 2006. His research interests include cross-cultural neuropsychology, schizophrenia, geriatrics, secondary psychosis, and psychosis secondary to traumatic brain injury, for which he is an international forensic consultant. He has more than 50 publications, including two edited books: The Spectrum of Psychotic Disorders: Neurobiology, Etiology, and Pathogenesis (2007) and The Neuropsychology of Asian-Americans (2011). Dr. Fujii is currently a co-chair of the national VA Psychology Training Committee, Multicultural Diversity Committee and chair of the VA Pacific Island Health Care Services and VA Central California Health Care System.  

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Foundations: Attitudes, Perspective, and Conceptual Overview
Chapter 1: A Respect for Culture
Chapter 2: Conceptual Guidelines: APA, AACN, AERA, and NCMA
Part II:  Preparation
Chapter 3: Creating a Cultural Context
Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Goals and Cultural Considerations
Chapter 5: Estimating Premorbid Functioning
Chapter 6: Strategies for Test Selection and Data Collection
Chapter 7: A Mini-Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests With Cross-Cultural Validity
Part III:  Evaluation and Report Writing
Chapter 8: Conducting the Evaluation
Chapter 9: Interpretation and Case Formulation
Chapter 10: Writing the Report and Providing Feedback
Appendix: Cultural Resources
References
Index
About the Author