Assessment in Counseling: Procedures and Practices

by Danica G. Hays

The latest edition of this perennial bestseller instructs and updates students and clinicians on the basic principles of psychological assessment and measurement, recent changes in assessment procedures, and the most widely used tests in counseling practice today. Dr. Danica Hays guides counselors in the appropriate selection, interpretation, and communication of assessment results. This edition covers more than 100 assessment instruments used to evaluate substance abuse and other mental health disorders, intelligence, academic aptitude and achievement, career and life planning, personal interests and values, assessment of personality, and interpersonal relationships. In addition, a new chapter on future trends in assessment discusses the changing cultural landscape, globalization, and technology.

Perfect for introductory classes, this text provides students and instructors with practical tools such as bolded key terminology; chapter pretests, summaries, and review questions; self-development and reflection activities; class and field activities; diverse client case examples; practitioner perspectives illustrating assessment in action; and resources for further reading. PowerPoint slides, a test bank, a sample syllabus, and chapter outlines to facilitate teaching are available to instructors by request to ACA.

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Genres: Counselling, School, Nonfiction, Textbooks

446 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 18, 2017

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.