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- Assessment tools enhance your therapeutic practice by providing structure, objectivity, and a common language for you and your clients to work with. They offer a window into your client’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that might not surface during regular conversation.
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Jul 29, 2024 · In this article, we’ll explore some of the most commonly used and reliable mental health assessments, as well as their applications at different stages of the therapeutic process. We’ll also walk through some ways you can automate and simplify the administration of these assessments.
Nov 1, 2017 · It is imperative that counselors understand how to critically evaluate assessments before using them to make clinical decisions. This evaluation can be conducted through integrating the 5 sources of validity. Each source of validity is discussed, along with methods to appraise psychometric quality, throughout this special issue. KEYWORDS:
- A. Stephen Lenz, Kelly L. Wester
- 2017
Fully understanding a client’s situation, symptoms and needs and then matching them with a diagnosis (when appropriate) and a treatment plan that will help them heal, grow and thrive are core aspects of professional counseling.
1. Understand the importance and role of assessment in counseling. 2. Identify psychological constructs and associated operational definitions. 3. Distinguish between standardized and nonstandardized assessments. 4. Identify relevant historical issues of assessment and the implications for assessment today. 5.
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Assessment methods include a wide array of formal and informal instruments and strategies, such as standardized and nonstandardized tests, questionnaires, inventories, checklists, observations, portfolios, performance assessments, rating scales, surveys, interviews, and other measures.
• Sample assessment items with an expanded list of common assessment tools • Coverage of the history of assessment, test-access issues, cultural bias in assessment, high-stakes testing, qualitative assessment, and specialty areas of assessment and related standards
