UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO
Challenges In Assessment
Part 2
Jevee D. Valiente 3AB-Psychology
Topic Outline
Evaluating Individuals Across Cultures
- Problems that are encountered
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Intended Learning Outcomes
• To be able to identify what are the problems when evaluating
someone with different culture.
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Problems Encountered
• Difference with language
• Culture biases
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Difference with language
• Overdiagnosis
• Patient’s slow and confused description interpreted as more than it
should be
• Underdiagnosis
• Patient’s description of his or her complex emotions is interpreted
as less than it should be.
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How to avoid?
• Interpreter – helps the clinician translate languages to
communicate with the patient.
• A not well-trained interpreter may produce problems such as,
misunderstanding and mistranslation.
• Misunderstanding- the interpreter does not reflect the patient’s
words correctly.
• Mistranslation- the interpreter does not know the particular dialect
of the patient.
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Cultural Bias
• Happens when the assessor and patient have different cultural
background but has the same language.
• Example:
European American assessors over diagnosing African American
as having symptoms of schizophrenia because African American
may present more intense symptoms
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