ABSTRACT
Psychological assessment practice requires more than competence in rapport building, interviewing, test administration, scoring, and interpretation. Krishnamurthy and Yalof (2010) articulate that the entire process needs to be anchored in ethical principles and practices (APA, 2002) and multicultural sensitivity (APA, 2003). Because religion is an identified area of diversity (APA, 2013), religious aspects of clients should be considered in the assessment process. Rather than assessing a client’s religion per se, this perspective suggests the need to understand the ways that a client experiences and expresses religiousness and spirituality and how it might influence his or her psychological functioning and approach to the psychological assessment process.
