Main description:

With each passing year, the educational landscape continues to become increasingly diversified across race and culture. This poses a significant challenge to schools worldwide—and particularly to school psychologists and allied educational professionals—to recognize and serve the needs of students and families with widely diverse language and cultural backgrounds. To be most effective in their jobs, school psychologists must now have a basic understanding of the impact of language and culture on individual students as well as those they interact with every day.

The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology (ECCSP) is comprehensive and reader friendly, with approximately 400 entries written by leading researchers, educators, and practitioners in the fields of school psychology and education. ECCSP provides an easily accessible A-to-Z reference in one concise volume across these six key cross-cultural competency areas:

• Legal and Ethical Issues


• School Culture, Educational Policy, and Institutional Advocacy


• Psychoeducational Assessment and Related Issues


• Academic, Therapeutic, and Consultative Intervention


• Working with Interpreters


• Research

School psychologists, educators, and other allied child psychology and education professionals, researchers, policy makers, graduate students, healthcare and mental health professionals, child advocates, and paraprofessionals benefit from the way in which this volume highlights the concepts and themes that are critical to addressing cross-cultural issues in schools. Entries also include issues relevant to pre-K through 12^th grade and, as a result, provide a lifespan approach to diversity.

Each entry offers a definition and description of the term, a bibliography, and additional references for professionals and all readers interested in seeking more in-depth information on any topic. All entries are cross-referenced to other terms of related interest, and a list of contributors is provided at the end of the volume in case readers want to research additional works by the same author. A subject index also helps readers find desired information quickly.

ECCSP is certain to become the accompanying reference book for coursework, research, practice, consultation, and policy in the ever-growing field of cross-cultural school psychology and education.

Feature:

Designed as a one-stop, easy-to-read reference, with comprehensive (A to Z) coverage of cross-cultural psychology and education in the schools

Provides reference lists after each entry for readers interested seeking out additional information

No other electronic + print resource of its kind currently exists

Organization and clarity allows users to access terms easily

Presents issues in cross-cultural school psychology and education from pre-K through 12^th grade, offering a lifespan approach

Contents:

From the contents

Part I. Foundation Issues in Cross-Cultural School Psychology. The History of Cross-Cultural School Psychology in the United States. Cross-Cultural School Psychology Competencies. Disparities in School Services. Intervention and Prevention Efforts in Cross-Cultural School Psychology. New Directions in Cross-Cultural School Psychology.- Part 2. Topics in Cross-Cultural School Psychology.