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Abstracts & Reviews : Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment by Ian A Canino and Jeanne Spurlock.1994. NewYork: Guilford. Cloth: $27.95 US, ISBN 0-89862-409-6, xii+196 pages

This book addresses the very important issue of how our understanding of cultural factors can influence the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children. Living in an age of geographic mobility, clinicians increasingly face issues of cultural diversity, poverty, discrimination, and acculturation. If these issues are not addressed, the result may be ineffective treatment, noncompliance with treatment plans, and lack of cooperation from our patients. The book concentrates on the mental health needs of four U.S. minority groups: African-American, Latino, Asian-American, and American-Indian. The authors present a detailed and comprehensive approach to assessing children from these diverse cultures. The book is rich with examples that clearly highlight the theoretical points that are discussed. Unfortunately, the authors do not clearly distinguish the differences between groups facing &dquo;acculturation&dquo; from a rapidly changing environment, such as American-Indians and the situation