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Assessing Psychosis in Hispanics

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The assessment and diagnosis of psychosis can be a difficult task and perhaps may pose an even greater challenge in culturally diverse populations. Specifically, it is both essential and challenging to validate diagnostic criteria and assessment items to ensure that they measure symptoms and indicators of psychosis as opposed to reflecting ethnic and socioeconomic factors, cultural beliefs, or religious practices. In this chapter, we will evaluate commonly used assessment and diagnostic tools for psychosis and provide relevant, research-based guidelines for using these measures with Hispanic populations.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California – San Diego, MC 09939500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0680, USA

    Veronica Cardenas Ph.D., Paula Helu M.S., Denisse Tiznado B.S. & Jennifer Ho B.A.

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Cardenas, V., Helu, P., Tiznado, D., Ho, J. (2013). Assessing Psychosis in Hispanics. In: Benuto, L. (eds) Guide to Psychological Assessment with Hispanics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4412-1_17

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