Assessment in Counseling: Procedures and Practices

by Danica G. Hays

This best-selling text explains the basic principles of psychological assessment and measurement and guides students and practitioners in the appropriate selection, interpretation, and communication of test results. Danica Hays introduces more than 150 assessment instruments used to evaluate mental health, intelligence, career development, wellness, personality, and interpersonal relationships. This latest edition covers new or expanded content on assessment use in schools, colleges/universities, and telehealth platforms; interprofessional collaboration to support assessment practices and procedures; qualitative assessment approaches and how they can be infused throughout counseling and assessment; cultural and social justice considerations and practices; and crisis and trauma assessment.

Numerous in-text features facilitate teaching and learning, including chapter pretests, trainee-centered reflective and field activities, practitioner perspectives, tip sheets on major concepts and practices, sample assessment items and tools, and case examples. A supplemental Instructor’s Guide is available by request that consists of a test bank, PowerPoint slides, and a sample syllabus.



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Genres: Counselling, School, Nonfiction, Textbooks

499 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 28, 2023

Reviews

[Maricarmen]

I read this textbook for my Assessment grad course and miss Hays better thank her lucky stars I don’t rate books I read for school.

[Bronte Detenbeck · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this novel for my Psychological & Educational Measurement course. It was straightforward and provided an abundance of detail. However, I sometimes found the language difficult to follow and the images confusing. Overall, a strong resource for learning and academic research, but not what I would describe as a leisure book.

[Michaela Blackwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This textbook is very dry, repetitive, and not super easy to read. It does have a lot of helpful information so I would give it two stars, but I added an extra star to be fair because I am not personally super interested in assessment and I wanted to the review to feel more fair. I really struggle to read a textbook that doesn't interest me and that could account for some of my issues with it.

[Madison Hillis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely helpful tool when conducting assessments on a wide variety of clientele. I found this text to be more than helpful during intake assessments, especially as someone that is new to the assessment world.

[Dana Libhart · Rating 3 out of 5]

This textbook wasn’t so bad. Easy to read and understand. Pretty repetitive on listing the various assessments within each chapter’s focus; while helpful to have a broad array, I feel maybe this could have been a little more condensed from that perspective.

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite dry but full of good information about all sorts of assessments and how to best use them.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book I had to read for Grad school, there seem to be better ones out there for A and T. This was meh but easy enough to read.

[Cris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh between 2 and 3. Felt like it described a hodgepodge of assessments without much underlying explanation, structure or context for various applications

[Pete · Rating 2 out of 5]

Grad school read-helpful tool and got some mileage with it building an extensive study guide.

[Candace · Rating 3 out of 5]

This textbook was used in my graduate Counseling and Art Therapy.