Trends in the neuropsychological assessment of ethnic/racial minorities: A survey of clinical neuropsychologists in the United States and Canada

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 353-361

  Elbulok Charcape, Milushka M ^a   Rabin, Laura A ^a   Spadaccini, Amanda T ^a   Barr, William B ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Ethnic racial minorities; Multicultural neuropsychology; Multicultural training; Survey

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANADA; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIST; TEACHER; UNITED STATES; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CANADA; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904662660     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: 19390106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035023     Document Type: Article

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