Principles and Applications of Assessment in Counseling

by Susan C. Whiston

Book Overview

Created specifically for counseling students, this text provides you with a comprehensive introduction to assessment and focuses on the importance of using assessment results to monitor and evaluate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0495501972
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Brooks Cole Publishing
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Interesting

Not easy to understand for the students. Although professionals would easily understand what is written. Edna Wells

test measuremts and appraisals

I find it facinating and helpful in the mental health field.

Everything the counselor needs to know about assessment.

Where was this book when I had to take an assessment class during the fall 2001 Term? At any rate, even though I have already taken an assessment course, I bought this book anyway for my own personal reference. Crazy you say? Consider this...Counselors have to be good consumers of assessments and the information they yield. While no one in their right mind advocates the "test and tell approach," ascribing a level of omniscience reserved only for deity, still tests and measurements can yield a lot of useful data. But what to do with it all? This is where this text comes in. It is simply good, ethical practice to be able to have a fairly good working understanding of the how,when,where, and whys of assessment. Whether you are taking a class, or need a refresher, or you are like me and you are a nut when it comes to doing this the correct way, this book is for you, price notwithstanding.