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Assessment in Counseling Assessment in Counseling Practice and Applications Richard S. Balkin University of Mississippi Gerald A. Juhnke The University of Texas at San Antonio 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978– 0– 19– 067275– 1 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America To the students who initially came in to my assessment class thinking “Ick!” and ended up loving it! — RSB Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. The Role of Assessment in Counseling 1 2. Case Studies, Progress Notes, and Classification Systems 15 3. Fundamentals of Assessment 48 4. Current Standards for Validity 77 5. Current Standards for Reliability 88 6. How to Choose an Assessment Instrument 107 7. Conducting an Initial Interview 120 8. Multicultural and Special Population Assessment Issues in Counseling 138 9. Fundamentals of Ability Assessment 151 10. Fundamentals of Career Assessment 178 11. Marriage, Substance Abuse, and Suicide Assessment 191 12. Fundamentals of Interpretation in Assessment 219 13. Assessment of Accountability in Counseling 234 Appendix A 251 Appendix B 253 References 257 Index 267 Preface Our approach to this book was to create a text that would emphasize assessment as a skill for professional counselors. When I teach assessment, as well as other courses that emphasize research methods and statistics, I often find students overwhelmed with the mathematical concepts and quite anxious about the coursework. Too often students experience assess- ment courses, and subsequently the textbooks used for the course, as a statistics- heavy class accompanied by an encyclopedia of a variety of assessments. We take a different approach. We emphasize the skills used in assessment and believe that once you understand the skills you can apply these skills across a broad range of assessment instruments and strategies. Assessment, like most core areas of counseling, has a theoretical basis and a pertinent, prac- tical component. However, this practical component often gets lost in the application of the skills and use of instruments that heavily rely on psychometric properties. Statistics are an influential component to assessment in counseling. If you are like many students and get mired in the mathematical concepts, I encourage you to take a step back and relax. Yes, there will be some math discussed and applied in this textbook, but we hope you will find that the explanation of the computations are provided to emphasize the process, as opposed to focusing on only the product. In my experience, most counseling students who express some intimidation with the statistical concepts do so as a result of past experience. My hope is that you will see these concepts expressed in a new or different light with focus on application, rather than the mere computation. My coauthor and I worked hard to focus on the application of the theoretical and measurement concepts of assessment in counseling. We attempted to use a conversational style of writing and introduce three case studies that we follow throughout the text. This is different from other textbooks that also present similar principles but do not demonstrate the application of said principles. In addition, instead of introducing you to a plethora of instruments, we select seminal measures that you are likely to comes across and use in the profession. We do not focus on types of assessments typically not used by professional
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