As today's global community becomes more intercultural, mental health professionals are being faced with an ever-growing range of cultural issues. In response to the increasing need for culturally competent clinical practice, Cultural Clinical Psychology provides a definitive basis for culturally appropriate assessment, treatment, research, education, and training. With outstanding variety and depth of coverage, over 25 eminent contributors discuss the role of culture in the context of psychopathology and physical well-being, including anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, mood disorders, schizophrenia, and pain. Each chapter includes a discussion of the symptoms that universally appear across different cultures; cultural influences on the prevalence and incidence of each major disorder; the role of culture in diagnostic and assessment practices, including the appropriate use of interviews and questionnaires; cultural issues in the delivery of mental health services; and a consideration of how cultural factors can help advance scientific knowledge and aid clinical practice. Cultural Clinical Psychology should be essential reading for clinicians, academics, and students in clinical psychology, health psychology, and psychiatry, as well as other professionals working in the mental health field.

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Shahe S. Kazarian is an Adjunct Professor in the Clinical Program of the Department of Psychology and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario. David R. Evans is a Professor in the Clinical Program of the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario.

"This book presents topics associated with cultural diversity and...is thorough in its attempts to broaden our knowledge about overall cultural notions in psychology as well as ethnic cultural issues. Individuals looking for material for their cultural clinical psychology courses can use this book to cover a variety of content. In summary, this book is recommended to be used as an essential component of a cross-cultural clinical psychology course. This book, combined with other diversity readings, can serve as a great foundation for exposing students to this essential component of their training as psychologists." -- Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 21, No. 1, Winter 2001

"One of the major trends in current clinical psychology is the prominent role of cultural factors in all aspects of clinical psychology. Increasingly, it is felt that cultural influences suffuse most, if not all, clinical encounters. This recognition is reflected in Cultural Clinical Psychology. To help bridge the gap between many working clinicians' backgrounds, often deficient in cultural orientation and guidance, and the needs of their culturally diverse clientele, the editors have assembled a group of specialists who have authored 14 chapters on the various aspects of culturally informed clinical intervention. . . . The volume is rich in information, much of which is useful to the clinician on the firing line . . . [It] has made a substantial contribution of bringing up to date the combination of clinical experience, substantial findings, and conceptual formulations that constitute the current knowledge base of cultural clinical psychology."--Contemporary Psychology