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- Through assessment, counselors are able to ascertain important information about clients, such as the nature of their problem; the magnitude and impact of the problem; the interplay between family, relationships, and past experiences with respect to the problem; the client’s strengths and readiness for counseling; and whether counseling can be beneficial to the client (Drummond & Jones, 2010).
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“It’s important for professional counselors, regardless of work setting, to be able to best serve their clients, and one way to do that is to be active in learning regarding assessment, diagnosis and best treatment planning. We can’t help others heal in isolation.”
- Assessment in Counseling
assessment procedures in the counseling process; emphasizes...
- Assessment in Counseling
Next, we describe how counselors use personality assessment in practice; briefly review and describe how counselors assess personality, with attention to the most commonly used assessment methods; and discuss multicultural issues in personality assessment in 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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Testing and assessment have long been and continue to be regarded as important roles of counseling psychologists. This issue of The Counseling Psychologist considers several contemporary developments and issues in the testing and assessment areas and their relevance for the counseling specialty.
- C. Edward Watkins, Vicki L. Campbell
- 1990
Personality assessment offers a useful bridge to establish a dialogue and therapeutic relationship between the patient and psychiatrist as two mutually respectful persons with the shared goal of well-being for the patient.
Assessment is an integral part of the counseling pro- cess in which the counselor and client work together to gain a better understanding of the client’s problems.
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assessment procedures in the counseling process; emphasizes the selection, interpretation, and communication of psychological test results; and highlights the basic principles of psy- chological assessment.
