Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (June 14, 2019) © 2020
  • Carl J. Sheperis
  • Robert J. Drummond
  • Karyn D. Jones

Title overview

For courses in assessment in counseling.

A classic textbook for aspiring counselors, updated and expanded to improve its usefulness

Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals helps aspiring counselors become competent, ethical practitioners in our multicultural society. The authors provide an overview of the many methods and procedures used in the process of assessment. Throughout the text, they offer information and examples about widely used assessment instruments in order to familiarize readers with these well-known tests.

The 9th Edition has been updated to align with the 2014 Standards of Educational and Psychological Testing as well as the ICD-10 and the DSM-5.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Best practices for evaluating assessment instruments help aspiring counselors learn how to select the right assessment instruments for their future clients.
  • Discussion questions, examples and activities in each chapter reinforce learning.

New and updated features of this title

  • UPDATED: All chapters have been updated and improved to include the most current information about specific assessment strategies and instruments. Students get the most contemporary strategies based on national and international standards.
  • UPDATED: Updated information about new editions of tests and assessment instruments reflects the latest improvements in the field.
  • UPDATED: Discussions of both the ICD-10 and the DSM-5 familiarize readers with the use of these guidelines in clinical assessment.
  • UPDATED: Additional case studies and activities illustrate key concepts and help readers understand how theory is applied in practice.
  • UPDATED: Reorganized content presents principles, foundations and types of assessment in a more logical flow so that students can see how they interact.
  • UPDATED: Ethical, legal and diversity issues are now explored in Part 1 as underlying principles in assessment.

Key features

Features of MyLab Counseling for the 9th Edition

  • The Video Library provides hundreds of video clips of authentic counseling sessions, ethical scenarios and interviews organized by course area. Instructors can choose from a wealth of content to create their own personalized homework, group exercises and in-class activities.
  • Automatically graded Licensure Quizzes provide immediate feedback to help students prepare for their certification examinations, master foundational content, and improve their course performance.
  • Video- and case-based exercises introduce students to a broad range of clients and presenting problems, helping them develop the techniques and decision-making skills they need to effectively work with clients.

Table of contents

PART ONE: THE PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSMENT

  1. Introduction to Assessment
  2. Ethical and Legal Issues in Assessment
  3. Assessment Issues with Diverse Populations
  4. Methods and Sources of Assessment Information

PART TWO: FOUNDATIONS OF ASSESSMENT

  1. Statistical Concepts
  2. Understanding Assessment Scores
  3. Reliability/Precision
  4. Validity
  5. Selecting, Administering, Scoring, and Interpreting Assessment Results

PART THREE: TYPES OF ASSESSMENT

  1. Assessment of Intelligence and General Ability
  2. Assessment of Achievement
  3. Assessment of Aptitude
  4. Career and Employment Assessment
  5. Personality Assessment
  6. Clinical Assessment
  7. Assessment in Education
  8. Communicating Assessment Results

Appendices

  1. Standards for Multicultural Assessment Fourth Revision, 2012
  2. Responsibilities of Users of Standardized Tests (RUST; 3rd Ed.)

Author bios

About our authors

Dr. Carl J. Sheperis serves as Dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University, San Antonio. Dr. Sheperis has served as President and CEO of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) and Affiliates. He is a past president of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling and Associate Editor for Quantitative Research for the Journal of Counseling and Development. He has worked with the American Counseling Association as the Chair of the Research and Knowledge Committee, and has served as the Editor of the Journal of Counseling Research and Practice. In addition to this textbook, Dr. Sheperis is an author of Research in Counseling: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods; Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Fundamentals of Applied Practice; Diagnosing and Treating Children and Adolescents; and The Peace Train. He is also published in various textbooks, academic journals and reference volumes.

Dr. Robert J. Drummond passed away on March 14, 2005. He was a retired professor and counselor educator at the University of North Florida for 20 years. He was foremost in the field of assessment, and he specialized in educational and psychological testing, career development, models for evaluation, educational research, and personality theory and measurement. Dr. Drummond wrote the 1st Edition of this text in 1988. Now in its 9th Edition, the book remains a popular assessment textbook in counseling.

Dr. Karyn Dayle Jones is an associate professor in counselor education at the University of Central Florida. She has over 20 years of experience in the counseling profession and has been a counselor educator for over 15 years. Jones is coauthor of Introduction to the Profession of Counseling, has authored or coauthored several book chapters and reference publications, and has made numerous professional presentations. Her primary areas of research are assessment and diagnosis. She is the past president of the Association for Humanistic Counseling, a division of the American Counseling Association. Jones is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a National Certified Counselor, and she has worked as a counselor in mental health agencies, schools and private practice.

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