COUN 6360 (COUN6360)

I have enjoyed this class and have found it to be very interesting! This class has taught me a lot more about how an assessment can be a great tool to get a chance to understand my client and help me come up with a treatment plan for them. I really liked that we got the chance to actually look at assessments we think would be useful for our clients. Being able to apply it to something I may be using in the future really helps me grasp information more........................................

1. Question: A neuropsychological assessment is most likely to be used in which of the following situations? 2. Question: Match the law or act with the most appropriate description. 3. Question: If a child is in grade 4.3 and receives a grade equivalent of 7.2 on an achievement test, he or she is achieving at the 7.2 grade level. 4. Question: Environmental assessments have a distinct advantage in that they: 5. Question: The Exner scoring system for the Rorschach relies on all of the followin...

1. Question: Which of the following is a type of criterion-related validity? 2. Question: Based on your readings in the text, special aptitude tests can be found in all of the following areas EXCEPT: 3. Question: Which of the following is NOT true about the Self-Directed Search? 4. Question: Concurrent and predictive validity are types of: 5. Question: On the MMPI, which of the following is NOT a validity scale? 6. Question: Which cognitive ability test measures "analytical abilities throu...

1. Question: Which of the following is NOT a diagnostic test? 2. Question: Which of the following was NOT a result of the Jaffe v. Redmond case? 3. Question: Which of the following is NOT found in a mental status report? 4. Question: Before people attempt to take their own lives or that of someone else, their thoughts and actions often lie along a continuum. Rank order the following items along this continuum. 5. Question: A student received a score on a norm-referenced standardized test tha...

1. Question: Which of the following is NOT true about the BDI-II? 2. Question: Which of the following is NOT a strength of informal assessment techniques? 3. Question: "When a test has been shown to produce consistent test results, it has which of the following?" 4. Question: PL 94-142 and the IDEA asserted: 5. Question: It is unusual to find one conducting an observation of an individual that includes both event and time sampling. 6. Question: As part of a graduates school program's com...

COUN 6360 Week 10 Assignment; Ethical, Legal, and Professional Standards in Assessment

The Alexander Street Videos include many selections that cover specific issues, diagnoses, and treatments. Consider the population that you hope to work with as a counselor, such as at-risk youth, or people with anxiety. Use the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) and the Alexander Street Videos (AVON in the Walden Library) to find out more about these topics and appropriate assessments. To Prepare: • The Walden Library has licensed a collection of videos from publisher Alexander Street, whic...

What is it like to be assessed? For this Discussion, you take the role of a client and experience taking the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE). As you go through this experience, consider what it feels like to be assessed, and to be a client. You will also complete the Jung Typology Test and reflect on your results. You will post your reflections and insights. To Prepare: • Review the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) video program in the Learning Resources for this week. • Complete the Mini Ment...

How do clinicians find and select an appropriate assessment to administer to a client? One source of information is the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY). As you review the descriptions of the cases in “Practice Making a Diagnosis,” from Neukrug and Fawcett, consider issues that may be relevant and that you would like to assess. Review the list of possible issues in the handout and select two that you would like to explore further through the MMY. To Prepare: Review the descriptions of ca...

1. Question: Which scale of measurement is being used if assigning numbers based on different professional affiliation (e.g., counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists)? 2. Question: Match the standard score with its mean and standard deviation. 3. Question: NCEs range from 1 to 99 along the bell-shaped curve, but as opposed to percentiles, they are in equal units along curve. 4. Question: If a child is in grade 4.3 and receives a grade equivalent of 7.2 on an achievement test,...