Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology

It is with great anticipation that I hope you, the reader, will learn from the pages that follow.The field of school psychology is becoming increasingly prominent.School-based mental health centers provide counseling and services to youth in one of their primary natural environments-the school.They give children and families access to counseling, assessment, intervention, resources, and referrals, among a host of other services.Access is enhanced when interventions are delivered where children live their lives and experience their world.This is unlike going to an outside environment for support such as a private practice setting.This in-life intervention is further enhanced when it is provided in a way that reflects the youth's experience.The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology puts the practice of school psychology in a cross-cultural context.It explores how school psychology is culturally and linguistically relevant for students who represent various dimensions of diversity.When selecting topics to write, contributors were instructed to consider how each subject area played out in a cross-cultural context.Hence, the concept of academic achievement considers the experiences of diverse racial/ethnic groups of youth.The term 'cultural resilience' explores the cultural implications of overcoming adversity.The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology has several goals.First, it seeks to respond to the increasingly diverse nature of schools-this considers what is happening nationally as well as implications for global outreach.Second, the volume organizes a community of science that provides current information about a far-reaching range of topics that are inextricably related.Individual entries are broadly categorized as follows: administrative issues; children at different stages of development; alternative school considerations; assessment within a cross-cultural context; community partnerships; counseling concepts; cultural competence; curriculum issues; ethnic identity; gender identity; health insurance and healthcare access; home-school connections; initiatives and innovations in the discipline; language and communication; religious schools; public policy; professional and community organizations; school climate; cross-cultural issues in special education; and a host of additional critical issues such as terrorism, teacher burnout, and culturally competent teaching strategies.The third goal is to offer an easily accessible major reference work.School personnel are busy.Countless challenges arise on a daily basis.Consider the incident where a child makes a racist comment to his classmate.In the moment, the teacher may be understandably nervous-she wonders how to respond and what action to take.This volume is geared to give teachers in this situation an avenue where they can quickly access topics like racism and bullying so as to respond from a base of new knowledge.The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology is formatted and organized in a purposeful way.Five foundational topics provide an overall grounding for the more than 400 entries that follow.The content of these five chapters includes an overview of the history of cross-cultural school psychology in the United States, a review of cross-cultural competencies, discussion about disparities in school services, consideration of multicultural assessment tools, and future directions in the field of school psychology.These foundational areas are followed by an A to Z listing of the topics themselves.Formatting within each topic is designed to maximize access to information.Entries range in length from small (approximately 600 words), to medium (1,500 words), and large (4,500 words).Subheadings highlight specific areas of interest associated with each topic.(Of course, for smaller entries, there may not be any subheadings.)Cross-references are provided at the end of each entry.These help the reader to seek out additional topics that relate to the major reference heading.For many topics, additional sections present suggested reading and suggested resources like websites.A text such as this is not without limitations.Because of the growth and increasing development of crosscultural school psychology, certain limitations are bound to develop.The changing nature of information is a case in point.Even within the course of this project, for instance, new scientifically based evidence and treatments emerged.The fact that this is an issue is exciting-it means that sufficient work is being done that warrants consideration about new developments and innovations in the field.This is good news.A second limitation is more concrete and concerns the topics themselves.It was easy to identify contributors for topics with substantial research and applied knowledge to back them up.This was not necessarily the case for some of the more esoteric, less researched topics.Indeed, some of these topics were ultimately not included because potential contributors could not be identified.It is hoped that as the field progresses, scholarship will occur not only for those more recent innovations, but also across an even greater range of content than that presented here.For topics that are not included, I invite readers to consider how research can move such areas forward for future publication.I am open to this conversation.Readers, for instance, are welcome to send me emails or letters sharing their recommendations about additional topics to be included in possible future editions of this volume.I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the many individuals who contributed to this work.An overall acknowledgement goes out to the authors.It has been a great pleasure to work with them and learn from their many perspectives.I am also quite proud of the fact that, just as this encyclopedia focuses on diversity, so too are the contributors whose words fill the pages that follow.Contributor diversity includes demographic variables, country of origin, area of study, and even professional position.With regard to the latter, for instance, it was wonderful that some of the contributors actually developed the measures they wrote about, whereas others were undergraduate and graduate students organizing their first publication.Just as the diversity of topics makes this work interesting, so too does the variety of authors who present their work from their particular worldviews.Finally, there are specific entities and individuals who deserve mention.I give a heartfelt thanks to a wonderful Advisory Board.The Board provided timely feedback and access to their expertise throughout the process of compiling this project.Many thanks also goes to

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