Acknowledgements -- About the editors -- Contributors -- Assessing children in the urban community : introduction / Barbara L. Mercer -- Introduction to community psychology -- Community psychology : managed care, communications and policy / Barbara L. Mercer -- Psychological assessment of children in a community mental health clinic / Barbara L. Mercer -- A descriptive analysis of cognitive and rorschach variables of children in a community mental health clinic / Hasse Leonard-Pagel and Barbara L. Mercer -- Assessment-driven intervention for youth and families in community service delivery systems / Justin D. Smith, Anne Mauricio, and Elizabeth Stormshak -- The cultural environment: theory and practice -- Cultural experiences in psychological assessment -- Collaborative assessment and social justice / Heather Macdonald and Christy Hobza -- Unspeakable fears : exploring trauma for undocumented immigrants / Cinthya Chin Herrera -- The ambiguous other : reflections on race and culture in the assessment relationship / Tricia Fong -- Working with countertransference reactions to treatment team members in collaborative assessments / Lisa M. Nakamura -- Cultural experiences in supervision and training -- Supervision : a cross-cultural dialogue / Hasse Leonard-Pagel -- Why are you crying? : it didn't happen to you? : vicarious trauma, assessment and supervision / Caroline Purves -- Training assessors in therapeutic assessment / Marianne E. Haydel Walsh, Barbara L. Mercer, and Erin Rosenblatt -- Surface ripples or deep waters? : finding the level for children's feedback stories / Caroline Purves -- Case studies in community-based psychological assessment -- Why did she put nail polish in my drink? applying the therapeutic assessment model with an African-American foster child in a community mental health setting / Brooke Guerrero, Jessica Lipkind, and Audrey Rosenberg -- Getting to the heart of the matter / Elisa Gomez and Brooke Guerrero -- The topsy-turvy tearmeter : clinical crisis and assessment intervention / Tricia Fong and Erin Rosenblatt -- How can I stay safe? : assessment with a sexually exploited minor / Brooke Guerrero -- The case of the bullet-proof vest : complex PTSD, racial wounds and taking matters into your own hands / Christopher Arrillaga -- Liberating the butterfly boy : engaging the family and system in the therapeutic assessment of a traumatized and gender nonconforming child / Lisa A. Greenberg -- Living with danger : complex trauma, attachment and repair in Oakland, California / Barbara L. Mercer and Kevin Bunch -- Shame : the hidden emotion with tough adolescents / Ankhesenamun Ball Marioni -- Appendices: feedback through stories, fables and letters -- Appendix A: stories about feelings -- Appendix B: Stories about identity -- Appendix C: Stories about learning -- Appendix D: Stories about past hurts -- Appendix E: Letters