Barbara L Mercer Editor

Barbara L. Mercer, PhD, is the former Assessment Program Director and clinical supervisor at WestCoast Children’s Clinic, a community psychology clinic in Oakland, California. She has worked in community mental health throughout her career. She has presented and written about foster care, culture, trauma, and collaborative assessment.

Heather Macdonald, PsyD, has been a licensed clinical psychologist since 2010 and has focused her practice on psychological assessment. She has produced numerous scholarly publications on the interface between culture, social justice, relational ethics, clinical practice, post-colonial thought, and psycho-political theory.

Caroline Purves, PhD, has administered psychological assessments for over 30 years, working with clients of all ages and a variety of ethnicities and backgrounds in the US, Canada, and England.