Coun6306 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Selecting an assessment to use with a client can be an important part of a counselor’s work. A first step is to conduct a comprehensive assessment and identify the client's presenting problem. A common assessment used in this stage is an intake assessment. For this assignment, you will complete an intake assessment using one of the three case study presentations, identify a mental health issue, and recommend one formal assessment you might use to help diagnosis the client. To Prepare: • C...

Selecting an assessment to use with a client can be an important part of a counselor’s work. A first step is to conduct a comprehensive assessment and identify the client's presenting problem. A common assessment used in this stage is an intake assessment. For this assignment, you will complete an intake assessment using one of the three case study presentations, identify a mental health issue, and recommend one formal assessment you might use to help diagnosis the client. To Prepare: • C...

Q. 1 A test developer creates a new instrument to measure psychotic tendencies. She correlates this instrument with an existing test that measures psychotic tendencies that has been shown to be valid. This type of validity is called: Q. 2 In assessing the reliability of a new test, a sample of 1,000 examinees take the test, and one week later are asked to take the same test again. This is an example of which type of reliability? Q. 3 Concurrent validity is to criterion-related validity as disc...

Psychometrics is the measurement of personality characteristics (Neukrug & Fawcett, 2015). The profile that emerges from the assessment can be used by counselors to best assist a client in his or her growth and awareness as well as other professionals such as employers in evaluating a job candidate or other situation to determine the fitness of an individual for a position or a task. To Prepare: • Review the Learning Resources to prepare for this quiz. To Complete: You must submit your fir...

COUN 6360 Week 5 Required Readings – Learning Resources

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,...

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...

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

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........................................

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...