Reference no: EM133717455

Question: Finally the question should be asked why include tests with a potential cultural bias or an appropriate Norms in the assessment of black patients the unfortunate answers that relying entirely on tests demonstratively uninfluenced by culture or with normative database that include a representative sample of black Americans will limit the comprehensiveness of the assessment it may just as an inequitable to not attempt a full and complete assessment of the black patient as it is to incorporate problematic test instruments in a raw battery this highlights the critical need for expanded test toolkit given the growing culture and ethnic diversity of the US population in the infrastructure available to each of the major US has development companies the failure to expand our clinical toolkit over the next decade will be a telling indictment of neuropsychology as a clinical profession where we are as a diagnostic profession is neither where we should be nor hopefully where we will be in the coming years expanding out toolkit of culturally appropriate or psychological test should be the top priority for the entire clinical profession.