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Accurate assessment requires language access and cultural humility. Using trained interpreters preserves confidentiality, accuracy, and role boundaries; family interpreters can distort content and create coercion. With proper language support, the social worker should explore the client’s cultural identity, migration history, stressors, strengths, and health beliefs (explanatory model): What do “nerves” mean? What causes it? What helps? How does family/community view help-seeking? Culturally responsive assessment also screens for trauma exposure, legal stress, discrimination, and practical needs (work, housing, documentation). This information guides collaborative goal-setting and selection of interventions congruent with values and preferences. Option B undermines rapport and risks misassessment. Option A threatens privacy and accuracy. Option D prematurely pathologizes without understanding context or language nuance. Centering culturally informed assessment with appropriate interpretation aligns with equity, accessibility laws/policies, and ethical standards, producing a more valid formulation and plan.