Multicultural Understanding of Child and Adolescent Psychology: Implications for Mental Health Assessment Thomas M. Achenbach, Leslie A. Rescorla Around the world, many immigrant and minority children are immersed in mental health, social welfare, and educational systems that are ill equipped to evaluate and help them. This important volume synthesizes an array of international findings to broaden the knowledge base on cultural variations in children's emotional and behavioral problems. From leading authorities, the book illuminates how cultural factors interact with other key influences on individual development. It offers new ideas for understanding and evaluating childhood disorders in our increasingly multicultural age. The volume explores multicultural aspects of psychopathology from two major perspectives: empirically based and diagnostically based approaches. Assessment instruments used within each approach are thoroughly described, and international findings are reviewed and compared. Providing the most systematic examination to date of similarities and differences between cultures in the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of the problems reported for children, the authors analyze what the data reveal about general and cultural-specific processes in psychopathology. They address methodological challenges, suggest ways that assessment may need to be adapted to the realities of different cultural contexts, and highlight evidence-based instruments and procedures that are particularly suited to multicultural Applications. With an eye toward prevention and treatment, the book discusses specific contributions that multicultural research can make to identifying children and families at risk and developing effective clinical services. […] Thomas M. Achenbach, PhD, is Director of the Center for Children, Youth, and Families at the University of Vermont… he taught at Yale and did research at the National Institute of Mental Health. [...] Leslie A. Rescorla, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Director of Child Study Institute, and Director of Early Childhood Programs at Bryn Mawr College. […]