Assessment Knowledge
Reliability and Validity
Client Summary and Treatment Planning
Specific Assessments
Intelligence and Achievement Assessments
100
"an assessment that uses T scores as a way to explain the raw scores of the assessment"
What is a standardized assessment
100
Defined as, "the degree to which a measure or a score is free of unsystematic error"
What is Reliability?
100
Based on formal and informal assessment of the client in order to best help the client succeed in counseling
What is a treatment plan
100
Most used assessment in counseling to assess for depression
What is the BDI II
100
Used primarily to determine appropriate instructional strategies for students
What is intelligence testing
200
An example of this type of assessment is a client intake.
What is an informal assessment
200
Based on Classic Test Theory, a measure of reliability provides an estimate of the amount of true variance to
What is observed variance
200
The reason the client reports to the counselor for coming to counseling
What is the presenting problem
200
Used primarily in family and couples counseling to look over family issues over the last 3 generations
What is a genogram
200
Piaget suggested that intelligence testing requires this in order to measure accurately
What is developmental progressions
300
An interview with an established set of questions
What is a structured interview?
300
Reliability is often calculated based on the degree of consistency between two sets of scores
What is correlation
300
Basing your interventions and treatment planning on what the client is ready to work on based on your assessments
What is treatment matching
300
Used to assess personal preferences based on what they have percieved
What is the MBTI
300
The most used intelligence test
What is Wechsler Scales
400
This type of assessment is done by the counselor and measures the client's appearance, attitude, mood, affect, thought process, thoughts content and perception, cognition, insight and judgment, and whether the client appears homicidal or suicidal
What is the Mental Status Exam (MSE)
400
Strong correlations with measures of theoretically related assessments
What is convergent validity
400
The use of the word "reports" when writing the report
What is a counselor writing a good client summary
400
SAMHSA's mnemonic for red-flags for suicidal behavior
What is IS PATH WARM Bonus question: what does that stand for?
400
Based on what students has learned or knowledge they have aquired
What is achievement testing
500
The client's mood when given the assessment as well as the counselor's own competency
What is circumstances than can influence the client's performance on an assessment
500
Exists when the instrument is not correlated with variables from which it should differ
What is Discriminant validity
500
Who is ultimately responsible for completing and working on the treatment plan goals?
Who is the client
500
Is the most famous projective technique that you need more than a doctorate degree to use
What is the Rorshach Inkblot Test
500
Predicts future performance
What is aptitude assessment
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