Assessment in Counseling: Procedures and Practices -- Contents -- Preface -- Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs 2016 Standards and Corresponding Chapters -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Section I: Foundations of Assessment in Counseling -- Chapter 1: Use of Assessment in Counseling -- Introduction to Assessment -- Key Assessment Terms -- Assessment -- Tests -- Measurement -- Variable -- Psychometrics -- Purpose of Assessment in Counseling -- History of Assessment -- Developments in Individual Intelligence Assessment -- Developments in Group Intelligence Assessment -- Developments in Ability Assessment -- Army Alpha -- Army Beta -- Developments in Career Assessment -- Developments in Personality Assessment -- Assessment Today and Beyond -- Assessment Usage in Counseling Settings -- Mental Health Counseling -- Career Counseling -- School Counseling -- Counseling Research and Counselor Education -- Key Questions for Selecting Assessments -- Who Is Making the Assessment? -- What Is Being Assessed? -- Where Is the Assessment Taking Place? -- When Is the Assessment Occurring? -- Why Is the Assessment Being Undertaken? -- How Is the Assessment Conducted? -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Chapter 2: The Assessment Process -- Types of Assessment Methods -- Group Versus Individual Assessment -- Standardized Versus Nonstandardized Assessment -- Speed Versus Power Tests -- Rating Scales -- Projective Assessments -- Behavioral Observations -- Interviews -- Biographical Measures -- Physiological Measures -- An Overview of the Assessment Process -- Test Selection -- Test Administration -- Test Interpretation and Communication of Findings -- Monitoring Client Progress and Evaluating Counseling Outcomes -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning.

Publications -- Web Resources -- Chapter 3: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Considerations in Assessment -- Standards and Guidelines for Evaluating Tests and Test Usage -- Joint Committee on Testing Practices Documents -- Specialty Assessment Standards -- Key Ethical and Legal Considerations in Assessment -- Counselor Competence in Testing -- Client Welfare Issues -- Professional Issues in Assessment -- Testing and Technology -- Counseling Process Issues -- Test Anxiety -- Coaching -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Chapter 4: Multicultural Considerations in Assessment -- Multicultural Counseling Competency and Assessment -- Fairness and Cultural Bias in Assessment -- Cultural Factors in Assessment -- The Culture of Counseling -- Counselor Discrimination -- Rates of Mental Disorders -- Client Motivation and Test Sophistication -- Acculturation -- Language -- Assessment and Gender -- Aptitude and Cognitive Assessment -- Career Assessment -- Assessment and Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Variables -- Aptitude and Cognitive Assessment -- Career Assessment -- Personality Assessment -- Culture-Fair Tests -- Cattell's Culture-Fair Intelligence Test -- Raven's Progressive Matrices -- Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test -- Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability -- Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test -- TEMAS -- Columbia Mental Maturity Scale -- Dynamic Testing -- Disability and Assessment -- Assessment Accommodations -- Visual Disabilities -- Hearing Disabilities -- Cognitive Disabilities -- Assessment of Older Adults -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Publications -- Web Resources -- Section II: Basic Statistical and Measurement Considerations -- Chapter 5: Measurement Concepts -- Scales of Measurement -- Nominal Scales -- Ordinal Scales -- Interval Scales -- Ratio Scales.

Reliability -- Measurement Error -- Correlation and Reliability -- Types of Reliability -- Validity -- Types of Validity -- Assessment Development -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Chapter 6: Understanding and Transforming Raw Scores -- Raw Scores -- Measures of Central Tendency -- Measures of Variability -- Characteristics of Data Distributions -- Norms and Ranks -- Developmental Norms -- Rank -- Percentile Rank -- Standard Scores -- z Scores -- T Scores -- CEEB Scores -- Deviation IQ Scores -- Stanines -- Standard Error of Measurement -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Section III: Initial Psychological Assessment -- Chapter 7: Initial Assessment in Counseling -- Intake Interview -- Interview Guidelines -- Mental Status Examination -- Screening Inventories -- Inventory of Common Problems -- Symptom Check List-90-Revised -- Brief Symptom Inventory, Derogatis Psychiatric Rating Scale,and SCL-90-Analogue -- Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 -- Inventories for Assessing Mental Disorders -- Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale -- Suicide Risk Assessment -- Significant Factors in Suicide Risk Assessment -- Suicide Risk Assessment Aids -- Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Variance, and Culture -- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Publications -- Web Resources -- Chapter 8: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Assessment -- Prevalence of Mental Disorders -- Assessment of Alcohol Abuse -- Criteria for Alcohol Dependence or Abuse -- Popular Alcohol Use Assessments -- Assessment of Depression -- Beck Depression Inventory-II -- Children's Depression Inventory -- Geriatric Depression Scale -- Hamilton Depression Inventory -- Assessment of Anxiety and Fear -- State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.

Beck Anxiety Inventory -- Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory -- Other Measures of Anxiety or Fear -- Assessment of Anger -- Assessment of Self-Injury -- Assessment of Eating Disorders -- Eating Attitudes Test -- Eating Disorders Inventory-3 -- Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Publications -- Web Resources -- Section IV: Types of Assessment -- Chapter 9: Assessment of Intelligence -- Theories of Intelligence -- Spearman's g Factor -- Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities -- Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory of Cognitive Ability -- Sternberg's Triarchic Theory -- Gardner's Multiple Intelligences -- Individual Intelligence Tests -- Stanford-Binet (SB5) -- Wechsler Scales -- Kaufman Batteries -- Das Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System -- Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV) -- Other Individual Intelligence Tests -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Individual Intelligence Tests -- Group Intelligence Tests -- Group Intelligence Tests for School Use -- Other Group Intelligence Tests -- Giftedness and Creativity -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Publications -- Web Resources -- Chapter 10: Ability Testing: Academic Aptitude and Achievement -- Introduction to Aptitude and Achievement Assessment -- Aptitude Tests for Higher Education -- SAT -- Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test -- ACT -- Validity of Scholastic Aptitude Tests -- Academic Aptitude Test Scores and College Admission -- Graduate and Professional School Admissions Tests -- Graduate Record Examination -- Miller Analogies Test -- Professional School Tests -- Academic Achievement Tests -- School Achievement Tests -- College-Level Achievement Tests -- Adult Achievement Tests -- Other Achievement Tests -- High-Stakes Testing.

Study Habits Inventories -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Publications -- Web Resources -- Chapter 11: Career and Life-Planning Assessment -- Introduction to Career and Life-Planning Assessment -- Measures of Career Readiness -- Adult Career Concerns Inventory -- Career Attitudes and Strategies Inventory -- Career Beliefs Inventory -- Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire -- Career Decision Scale -- Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale -- Career Development Inventory -- Career Factors Inventory -- Career Futures Inventory -- Career Mastery Inventory -- Career Maturity Inventory-Revised -- Career Thoughts Inventory -- Childhood Career Development Scale -- My Vocational Situation -- Skills Confidence Inventory -- Introduction to Comprehensive Assessment Programs -- Standardized Assessment Programs -- ACT Career Planning Survey -- Differential Aptitude Tests -- Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) -- WorkKeys -- O*NET System and Career Exploration Tools -- Career Occupational Preference System -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Publications -- Web Resources -- Chapter 12: Measures of Interestsand Values -- Introduction to Interest Inventories -- Popular Interest Inventories -- Strong Interest Inventory -- Campbell Interest and Skill Survey -- Kuder Career Search With Person Match -- Self-Directed Search -- Career Decision-Making System-Revised -- Jackson Vocational Interest Survey -- Values Inventories -- Inventories of Work Values -- Inventories of Personal Values -- Values Clarification Exercises -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Resources for Further Learning -- Publications -- Web Resources -- Chapter 13: Assessment of Personality -- Introduction to Personality Assessment -- Popular Structured Personality Assessments.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories.

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