ABSTRACT
Diversity is the underpinning of any work in clinical psychology. The struggle to accurately understand our clients is magnified in psychological assessment, which requires us to arrive relatively quickly at important conclusions about the people we evaluate. We are usually working with people who are at a difficult time in their lives. Often when clients come for an assessment, their problems seem to them to be impossible to conquer, and hope is in short supply. Some are in great pain, some are angry, some are scared, some are confused about why their lives do not work as they think they should. Some do not think anything is wrong despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. Often clients are trapped in ineffective strategies to which they cling tenaciously. Sometimes they look to us for miraculous insights, while at the same time rejecting what we have to offer.
