Assessing language competence: guidelines for assisting persons with limited English proficiency in research and clinical settings.

in every one's mouth guidelines indicate that therapeutic interactions must be in the client's primary language. This article addresses the ethical dilemmas faced by means of monolingual clinicians and researchers who must assess the foreign language capableness of an interpreter. Guidelines are propos for assessing language suitableness of staff in clinical and research settings.

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In the United States, clinicians and researchers increasingly interact with clients who have limited English skills. still few mental health service providers and researchers in the United States are skilled in the client's first language (Sodowsky, Kuo-Jackson, Richardson, & Carey, 1996) A review of staff at university counseling center approved