Main description:

Integrative Assessment for Counselors presents valuable assessment information and guidance which emerging helping professionals, students, and those preparing for licensure can apply to various mental health, school, community, and organizational settings. Using a case study approach, and written in a practitioner's voice, this practical guide presents a comprehensive, balanced look at a number of topics readers can put to immediate use in their practices including assessment information and guidance, testing, the risks and resources approach to assessment, interviewing principles and methods, exploring presenting problems and readiness for change, informal and formal observations, assessing the therapeutic alliance, standardized risk assessments, dangerousness to self and others, and assessing substance abuse.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychological Assessment

Chapter 2: Ethical and Legal Considerations: Preparing for the Assessment

Chapter 3: Interviewing adults and youth: Principles, Methods and Skills

Chapter 4: Exploring Presenting Problems, Readiness for Change, and Risks and Resources

Chapter 5: Observations, Inferences, and Behavioral Assessment

Chapter 6: Psychological Tests and Measurement Concepts

Chapter 7: Reliability and Validity

Chapter 8: Personality and Interest Measures

Chapter 9: Assessing Psychopathology: Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Chapter 10: Child and adolescent measures

Chapter 11: Standardized Risk Assessments: Suicide and Dangerousness to Others

Chapter 12: Assessing Substance Use Disorders

Chapter 13: Assessment of Intellectual and Cognitive Abilities and Achievement

Chapter 14: Assessing the Therapeutic Alliance

Chapter15: Putting it All Together