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...

COUN 6360 Week 5 Required Readings – Learning Resources

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...

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,...

1. Question: Generally, counselors create clinical case notes 2. Question: Once counselors have disclosed their legal questions to their immediate supervisors and have received a response either from the supervisor or from an attorney who is advising them as to the proper course of action 3. Question: In order for a counselor to be competent to engage in group work, the counselor 4. Question: The following are true of distance counseling services EXCEPT: 5. Question: Within the counseling pr...

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: Generally, counselors create clinical case notes 2. Question: Once counselors have disclosed their legal questions to their immediate supervisors and have received a response either from the supervisor or from an attorney who is advising them as to the proper course of action 3. Question: In order for a counselor to be competent to engage in group work, the counselor 4. Question: The following are true of distance counseling services EXCEPT: 5. Question: Within the counseling pr...

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