Psychological Interventions from Six Continents

Barbara L. Mercer, PhD, is the former Assessment Program Director and clinical supervisor at WestCoast Children’s Clinic, a community psychology clinic in Oakland, California. She has worked in community mental health throughout her career. She has presented and written about foster care, culture, trauma, and collaborative assessment. Heather Macdonald, PsyD, has been a licensed clinical psychologist since 2010 and has focused her practice on psychological assessment. She has produced numerous scholarly publications on the interface between culture, social justice, relational ethics, clinical practice, post-colonial thought, and psycho-political theory. Caroline Purves, PhD, has administered psychological assessments for over 30 years, working with clients of all ages and a variety of ethnicities and backgrounds in the US, Canada, and England.

Foreword, Jim Allen; Introduction: Culture, Collaboration, and Community, Barbara L. Mercer, Heather Macdonald, and Caroline Purves; Section I. Psychological Service Delivery; 1: Beginnings: Psychological Service Delivery, Barbara L. Mercer; 2: Paradigms for Well-Being: Ways of Knowing and Psychological Services, Barbara L. Mercer; Section II: Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment Models; 3: Assessment, Training, and Social Justice in Community Psychology, Heather Macdonald, Barbara L. Mercer, and Caroline Purves; 4: Assessment of Japanese Children, Hikikomori, Noriko Nakamura; 5: Growing Empathy with Complex Clients in Developing Countries: Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment in Latinoamérica, Ernesto Pais and Daniela Belloc; 6: Culture and Psychological Assessment in India, Kakli Gupta; Section III: Collaboration and Immigration; 7: Collaborative Assessment from a Transcultural Perspective: Cooperativa Crinali’s Experience in Milan, Italy, Marta Breda, Nicole Fratellani, Francesca Grosso, Ilaria Oltolini, Benedetta Rubino, and Stefania Sharley; 8: "Different Cultures Wear Different Shoes!" Therapeutic Assessment with a 17-Year-Old Immigrant Boy in the Netherlands, Hilde De Saeger and Inge Van Laer; 9: Psychological Assessment of South Sudanese Persons in Mental Health Treatment in the United States, John Chuol Kuek; Section IV: New Measures, Alternative Interventions, and Indigenous Inclusion; 10: Singing to the Lions - A Program to Help Children Respond Effectively to Fear and Violence in Their Lives: Culturally Relevant Assessment and Intervention in Zimbabwe and Beyond, Jonathan Brakarsh, Lucy Y. Steinitz, Jane Chidzungu, Eugenia Mpande, and Lightwell Mpofu; 11: Indigenous Inclusion and Intervention: The Flight of Eagles, Shaun Hains; 12: The Interface: Western Tools and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Helen Milroy, Monique Platell, and Shraddha Kashyap