Description
Assessment in Counseling: Procedures and Practices, 6th Edition
Assessment is where counselling is most easily done badly. An instrument chosen for the wrong reason, a score read without its confidence interval, a result delivered to a client without context: each is a small failure with real consequences. This assessment in counseling 6th edition text, published by the American Counseling Association, grounds practice in measurement principles before it gets anywhere near a specific test.
Danica G. Hays keeps the book’s emphasis on integration: results are combined with clinical interview and collateral information rather than read on their own.
What the book covers
- Foundations: core terminology, the history of assessment, and what assessment is actually for.
- The assessment process, from referral question to integrated conclusion.
- Ethical, legal and professional issues, and the assessment standards that govern practice.
- Statistics and measurement: scales of measurement, reliability, validity, correlation, test development, central tendency and variability, and raw score transformation.
- Initial assessment tasks, including screening for mental health and substance use symptoms at the start of the counselling relationship.
- Types of assessment: career development, interests and values, interpersonal functioning, intelligence, achievement and aptitude.
- Communicating results, including report writing and feeding findings back to clients in a form they can use.
Why counsellors keep this book
It is published by the American Counseling Association, so it reflects the profession’s own standards rather than a generic testing perspective. Measurement is taught for interpretation: enough statistics to read a manual critically, without turning into a statistics course.
Who this book is for
- Counselling students taking an assessment or testing course in a CACREP-accredited programme.
- School counsellors, clinical mental health counsellors and career counsellors in practice.
- Candidates preparing for the NCE, NCMHCE or state licensure examinations.
- Supervisors teaching assessment courses to trainees.
Book details
- Title: Assessment in Counseling: Procedures and Practices
- Author: Danica G. Hays
- Edition: Sixth Edition
- Publisher: American Counseling Association
- ISBN-13: 9781556203688
- Format: Paperback, 456 pages
Questions buyers ask
Who is this assessment in counseling book for?
Counselling students in a CACREP-accredited assessment course, plus practising school, clinical mental health and career counsellors. Candidates preparing for the NCE or NCMHCE and supervisors teaching assessment courses also use it.
Do I need a statistics background to use this book?
No. It teaches enough statistics and measurement to read a test manual critically, without turning into a full statistics course.
Why is the sixth edition published by the American Counseling Association?
Because it grounds assessment practice in the profession’s own standards rather than a generic testing perspective, from the ethical and legal issues through to specific instruments.
Does it cover more than just testing procedures?
Yes. It also covers communicating results, report writing, and integrating test data with clinical interview and collateral information before reaching a conclusion.
What format does it ship in?
Paperback, 456 pages, published by the American Counseling Association.
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