Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals

by Carl Sheperis, Robert Drummond, Karyn Jones

A classic textbook for aspiring counselors, now updated and expanded to improve its usefulness and relevance for practicing counselors.

Since its first publication in 1988, Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals has become a classic among assessment textbooks designed specifically for aspiring counselors. Now in its 9th Edition, the text includes extensive changes to content and updating throughout, while maintaining its popular, easy-to-read format and continuing emphasis on assessment information that is most useful and relevant for school counselors, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and other helping professionals. Throughout the text, readers get invaluable information and examples about widely used assessment instruments in order to become familiar with these well-known tests.

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Genres: Counselling, Psychology, School, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Mental Health

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Joel Hacker]

Part of the required reading in one of my graduate programs on therapy. The 8th edition is a great overview of assessment in various parts of the counseling profession. The information is detailed enough to be accurate, but brief enough not to drag the reader down with minutiae and redundancies. Even the sections including details on the mathematics necessary for assessment are not too “mathy”. Enough information on the statistical steps necessary for various procedures is present to be a refresher for those who’ve had a more involved stat course, and enough for a lay understanding of the process involved for those who don’t need to carry out the procedures themselves but do need some knowledge of what they mean.

[Rachel Shallenberger]

Not sure all of the math was correct. Probably could have used some better editing. I also don't think it's helpful to just list a bunch of assessments, but I guess they want you to use it as a reference later? I'll probably google it! Okay over all

[Camryn Douglas]

Very educational. Only read Chapters 1-5 and 13-the end but the middle was probably good too.

[Victoria Laubach]

This was a required book for my master’s program.

[Tim Tuttle]

Good text for grad school... real snoozer though

[Carter]

This textbook was comprehensive, covering several relevant aspects of testing including psychometric properties of several different types of tests, ethics, multicultural considerations, and best practices for counselors administering and interpreting assessments. The content of this textbook complemented the curriculum for my graduate-level psychometrics course and I can see how this may be a useful reference for future courses and clinical work.

[Jessbop]

Read for EDCN620

[Eva]

Very informative books, covers various topics really well. The activities for students are very applicable to the counseling setting.

[Matthew]

Good info but mall print and heady.