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What do you think when someone said culturally-informed assessments?

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Culturally informed assessments specify and test what about the social and cultural world matters to avoid making inferences based on group labels associated with ethnicity or race. In therapy, culturally sensitive hypotheses regarding a client's problem behaviors and controlling variables should be developed, and one should select target behaviors and interventions that are ...

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