Overview

Series: Cultural competency

This is the second webinar in the series and will focus on psychological assessment with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) youth.

40% of the CALD population consists of minors who are from migrant or refugee background, and encounter language and cultural barriers. Despite their varying ethnicities or migration experiences they all attend schools.

Some of the CALD youth manifest psychosocial and academic difficulties, however, currently, there is an absence of valid and reliable tests and protocols that can be used by psychologists.

This webinar will cover:

• the use of case studies to present the difficulties CALD youth can experience and the risk factors contributing to their problems,

• ways in which informal assessment tools, such as interviews with the clients and their families can be used to gather salient information about the psychosocial and academic difficulties,

• the measures that are available in a range of languages, and

• examine ways in which the existing formal tests can be used as qualitative tools. 

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Level of Learning

Foundational. This activity is targeted to those new to the topic.

Duration of access

Access to this activity is for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration.

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This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality.

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Activity details

• On-demand webinar recording

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• recognise the challenges of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) youth in school settings, and

• assess CALD youth using a range of formal and informal assessment strategies.

Presenter(s)

Dr Nigar Khawaja FAPS

About the presenter(s)

Nigar G Khawaja (PhD) is a Professor at the School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology. She is a Clinical Psychologist and has taught advanced psychological assessment courses as a part of the Master of Clinical psychology program.
Further, as a part of her cross-cultural and transcultural research she has worked extensively with culturally and linguistically diverse populations from migrant and refugee backgrounds. As an academic and a researcher, she has spearheaded research, training programs, and resources to hone the cultural competency skills of psychologists. She has published approximately 100 papers in international peer reviewed journals and received funding from multiple government and non-government sources. As an APS Fellow, Nigar is keen to promote the skills of the APS members.