The American Counseling Association’s own guide to assessment — how to choose an instrument, read what it tells you, and explain it to the person it is about.

Danica G. Hays’s Assessment in Counseling: Procedures and Practices, Sixth Edition, covers the selection, interpretation and communication of psychological test results alongside the basic principles of assessment. Its recurring emphasis is that a score means nothing on its own: results have to be integrated with everything else known about the client. Published by ACA and widely assigned in CACREP-accredited programmes.