Coun6360 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Selecting an assessment to use with a client can be an important part of a counselor’s work. A first step is to conduct a comprehensive assessment and identify the client's presenting problem. A common assessment used in this stage is an intake assessment. For this assignment, you will complete an intake assessment using one of the three case study presentations, identify a mental health issue, and recommend one formal assessment you might use to help diagnosis the client. To Prepare: • C...

Selecting an assessment to use with a client can be an important part of a counselor’s work. A first step is to conduct a comprehensive assessment and identify the client's presenting problem. A common assessment used in this stage is an intake assessment. For this assignment, you will complete an intake assessment using one of the three case study presentations, identify a mental health issue, and recommend one formal assessment you might use to help diagnosis the client. To Prepare: • C...

COUN 6360 Week 10 Assignment; Ethical, Legal, and Professional Standards in Assessment

1. Question: Which scale of measurement is being used if assigning numbers based on different professional affiliation (e.g., counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists)? 2. Question: Match the standard score with its mean and standard deviation. 3. Question: NCEs range from 1 to 99 along the bell-shaped curve, but as opposed to percentiles, they are in equal units along curve. 4. Question: If a child is in grade 4.3 and receives a grade equivalent of 7.2 on an achievement test,...

I have enjoyed this class and have found it to be very interesting! This class has taught me a lot more about how an assessment can be a great tool to get a chance to understand my client and help me come up with a treatment plan for them. I really liked that we got the chance to actually look at assessments we think would be useful for our clients. Being able to apply it to something I may be using in the future really helps me grasp information more........................................

COUN 6360 Week 6 Required Readings – Learning R

COUN 6360 Week 2 Assignment; Thematic Apperception Test Assignment: Thematic Apperception Test This exercise will provide you with an abbreviated experience of how an apperception test works. You will be assessed on one item and the system will automatically evaluate your responses and return results immediately. As you complete this exercise, consider how this experience of evaluation feels to you, and consider how this could feel for clients. To Prepare: • Review the Thematic Apperceptio...

How do clinicians find and select an appropriate assessment to administer to a client? One source of information is the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY). As you review the descriptions of the cases in “Practice Making a Diagnosis,” from Neukrug and Fawcett, consider issues that may be relevant and that you would like to assess. Review the list of possible issues in the handout and select two that you would like to explore further through the MMY. To Prepare: Review the descriptions of ca...

The Alexander Street Videos include many selections that cover specific issues, diagnoses, and treatments. Consider the population that you hope to work with as a counselor, such as at-risk youth, or people with anxiety. Use the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) and the Alexander Street Videos (AVON in the Walden Library) to find out more about these topics and appropriate assessments. To Prepare: • The Walden Library has licensed a collection of videos from publisher Alexander Street, whic...

What is it like to be assessed? For this Discussion, you take the role of a client and experience taking the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE). As you go through this experience, consider what it feels like to be assessed, and to be a client. You will also complete the Jung Typology Test and reflect on your results. You will post your reflections and insights. To Prepare: • Review the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) video program in the Learning Resources for this week. • Complete the Mini Ment...