Tripartite Cultural Personality and Ethclass Assessment

Authors

Ken Huang, St. Cloud State University

Abstract

This article assumes of the necessity of a theory of "tripartite personality" and utility of ethclass assessment in cross-cultural therapeutic interventions. It includes, (1) determinants of human behavior; (2) ethnocentrism and effects on groups and individuals, both majority and minority; (3) strategies of conventional intervention and its cultural encapsulation; (4) the proposed tripartite cultural personality, and psychocultural intervention; (5) the ethclass assessment and how it can be incorporated into the DSM-III-R (now, DSM-IV) Multiaxial Diagnostic System.

Recommended Citation

Huang, Ken (1995) "Tripartite Cultural Personality and Ethclass Assessment," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 22: Iss. 1, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.2218
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol22/iss1/8