Since its first publication in 1988, Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals has become a classic among assessment textbooks designed specifically for aspiring counselors. Now in its Eighth Edition the text includes extensive changes to content and updating throughout, while maintaining its popular, easy-to-read format and continuing emphasis on assessment information that is most useful and relevant for school counselors, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and other helping professionals. Throughout the text, readers learn the essential topics; see clearly how the elements of assessment interact; apply the material to the major instruments used in counseling; reinforce learning through discussion questions and activities; and get invaluable information and examples about widely used assessment instruments in order to become familiar with these well-known tests.

Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals (8th Edition) (Merrill Counselling)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Drummond, Robert J.

Sheperis, Carl J.

Jones, Karyn D.

Psychology & Counseling

Pearson

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to professional counseling, a profession that helps individuals, groups, and families work through troubles arising from problems experienced in everyday life. As with previous editions, this text's philosophical and theoretical orientation to counseling is based on a phenomenological, psychosocial, life-span developmental approach. In this approach counselors help persons resolve or work through situational, developmental transitions and conflicts within a multicultural context. Highlights of the new edition: <li>The issue of technology and online counseling has been addressed in several chapters throughout the text. </li>
<li>A new section entitled "Counseling Activities" has been added to encompass the chapters describing the most common work activities of counselors. </li>
<li>A new chapter on consultation has been included focusing on consultation in schools, mental health agencies, and organizational settings. </li>
<li> Updated information on accreditation of training programs and licensing and certification requirements. </li>
<li> Updated discussion of professional, ethical, and legal issues in counseling to reflect the 2005 ACA Code of Ethics. </li>
<li> Updated material about the role of theories in guiding, evaluating and improving the practice of counseling. </li>
<li> Revised information about the profession of school counseling and added information about the ASCA National Model for school counseling programs.</li>

Introduction to the Profession of Counseling (5th Edition)

Education & Teaching

Nugent Professor Emeritus, Frank A.

Schools & Teaching

A proven classic in the field and the leading text in assessment for counselors, the newest edition of Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals has been completely updated and expanded to offer more thorough coverage of assessment methods. Among the new and expanded material is coverage of psychometric and statistical concepts; new and revised tests, inventories, and scales; relevant ethical and legal issues; contemporary measurement theories; and important multicultural issues. In addition, the 17 chapters of this clear and user-friendly book provide guidance on how and when to use tests in different settings with different populations and information on basic procedures like test selection, administration, and reporting. Additional case studies have also been added throughout the text to help readers understand how to work with assessments and assessment results in real world situations.

Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals (7th Edition)

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