Social Justice in Psychological Assessment

Abstract

This presentation will focus on issues of integrating social justice values into the process of psychological assessment (Fernandes & Pade, 2024). The presentation will describe models of social justice broadly and social justice as specifically applied to the psychological assessment landscape. Concrete actions related to greater access to assessment services will be presented, as well as for reducing shame in the process (Fantini et al., 2022) and writing culturally responsive reports (Chapman-Hillard et al., 2018). In addition to presenting incremental steps toward improving social justice in individual practice, a transformative model for the landscape of psychological assessment will be presented, aligned with both a population health approach (American Psychological Association, 2022) and the Institute of Medicine’s prevention framework models (Springer & Phillips, 2007).

Presenters

Andrew Wright | New York University

Hadas Pade | The Wright Institute