| Custom Content | Poster Session 11 Program Schedule
02/17/2024
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Room: Shubert Complex (Posters 1-60)
Poster Session 11: Cultural Neuropsychology | Education/Training | Professional Practice Issues
Final Abstract #1
Poster Symposium: Summary
Emerging Research and Supervisor and Trainees’ Perspectives on Multicultural and Multilingual Neuropsychological Assessments
Category: Career Development/Education/Training
Keyword 1: language: second/foreign
Keyword 2: neuropsychological assessment
Keyword 3: assessment
Summary Abstract:
This symposium is supported by the Association of Neuropsychology Students & Trainees (ANST), the trainee-led arm of The Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (APA Division 40). There is a clear need for culturally competent neuropsychological services for ethnic, linguistic, and cultural minorities, especially in the United States and Canada where minority groups are a growing sector of the population (Rivera Mindt et al., 2010). Models of culturally responsive supervision in neuropsychology encourage developmental-based learning for trainees and evidence-based practice (Stinson et al., 2023). However, given that normative data is often lacking and there is an underrepresentation of minority neuropsychologists, it can be challenging to provide this supervision or the desired evidence-based services. Furthermore, the perspective of minority trainees has often been overlooked or not included in discussions of culturally competent services. This symposium aims to provide both supervisors’ and trainees’ perspectives on multicultural neuropsychological assessments and highlight emerging empirical research. Four talks will be presented during this symposium. The first two talks will focus on neuropsychological assessments for Spanish-speaking individuals. Speaker Perez Lao will provide an overview of her systematic review on Spanish-language norms and her perspective as a Spanish-speaking graduate trainee working with Spanish and non-Spanish-speaking patients and different culture supervisors. Speaker Karstens will provide data from Mayo Clinic’s digital multicultural test development platform, specifically sharing results from virtual focus groups involving Spanish-speaking community members, patients, trainees, and professionals from different countries. This model demonstrates a rapid and novel approach to adapting neuropsychological tests into Spanish, while considering the values and perspectives of trainees as stakeholders. Following this, Speaker Pishdadian will provide an overview of the available normative neuropsychological data for Farsi-speaking individuals, and a case study outlining clinical decision making on whether to use an interpreter and test selection for a bilingual Farsi-English individual. Lastly, Statucka will summarize previous research on neuropsychological tests which indicates that culture may differentially impact neuropsychological test performance and share new research on how reports of subjective cognitive decline may differ across cultural backgrounds. Following all speakers’ presentations, a 15 minute general discussion and question period on the data and culturally supportive and competent supervision will take place.
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