Assessment in Counseling: Procedures and Practices - Paperback - ISBN: 9781556203688

This guide outlines different assessment procedures for counseling and the selection, interpretation, and communication of psychological test results, as well as basic principles of psychological assessment, emphasizing the importance of integrating results with other information about the client. It covers basic concepts like terms, the history of assessment, its purpose and use, the assessment process, and ethical, legal, and professional issues and assessment standards; statistics and measurement considerations, including scales of measurement, reliability, validity, correlation, test development, measures of central tendency and variability, and raw score transformation; common assessment tasks used at the beginning of the counseling relationship to gauge mental health and substance abuse symptoms; types of assessment, including career development, interests and values, interpersonal relationships, and personality; and communicating findings and developing a research report. This edition has new ways to integrate assessment into the counseling profession, core areas identified by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, more focus on multicultural counseling competency and social justice in terms of the counseling and assessment process, resources for further learning, and supplemental materials for instructors, as well as more coverage of high-stakes testing, projective assessments, and interpersonal assessment involving intimate partner violence and child abuse, and recent revisions in intelligence and ability assessment. It also has a new chapter on future trends in assessment. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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Publisher: Amer Counseling
Language: English
Author: G. Hays, Danica
Print length: 456
ISBN-10: 1556203683
ISBN-13: 9781556203688

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