Testing Basics
What is the primary purpose of a psychological assessment in counseling?
What is to understand a client's behavior, thoughts, and feelings?
What type of assessment would be used to explore a person's career interests?
What is a vocational or career assessment?
This principle requires maintaining the confidentiality of assessment results.
What is privacy?
A counselor uses a series of personality and interest inventories to assist a client in career planning. This is an example of what type of assessment?
What is vocational counseling?
This theory of intelligence suggests that intelligence can be divided into different categories rather than seen as a single ability.
What is Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
Name two key qualities of an effective assessment tool.
What are reliability and validity?
This screening tool is used to quickly assess the severity of generalized anxiety disorder symptoms.
What is the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)?
Using tests that are culturally insensitive or biased against the client can violate this ethical principle.
What is non-discrimination?
A child is assessed using various tools to determine their learning style and potential disabilities. This process is known as?
What is a psychoeducational evaluation?
A model of personality that describes personality in terms of five broad dimensions.
What is the Five-Factor Model or Big Five?
This statistical term describes the consistency of a test across different administrations.
What is reliability?
This tool is used to measure health and disability levels across six domains of functioning. It is applicable across cultures and adult populations.
What is the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0?
Sharing test results with unauthorized individuals without consent violates this ethical standard.
What is confidentiality?
An adult client is experiencing anxiety and depression. The counselor decides to use this type of assessment to determine the severity of symptoms.
What is a psychometric test or a psychological screening?
This counseling theory emphasizes the client's capacity for self-direction and understanding of oneself.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
The degree to which a test measures what it claims to measure is known as?
What is validity?
Created by Aaron T. Beck, this self-report inventory is one of the most widely used tools for measuring the severity of depression. It consists of 21 items that evaluate symptoms such as sadness, pessimism, and fatigue.
What is the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)?
This ethical consideration involves selecting and administering tests appropriate for the client's age, cultural background, and linguistic capabilities.
What is cultural competence?
This scenario describes the ethical issue of a counselor who administers a test that has not been properly validated for the client's cultural background.
What is cultural insensitivity or bias in testing?
Attachment theory in counseling is based on the dynamics of which type of relationships?
What are child-caregiver relationships?
This type of validity ensures that a measurement tool accurately represents the concept it aims to measure.
What is construct validity?
A projective test where individuals are asked to respond to ambiguous stimuli.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
This term refers to the ethical obligation of counselors to explain to clients how their assessment data will be stored, who will have access to it, and how it might be used in the future, ensuring transparency and client autonomy in the assessment process.
What is informed consent regarding data handling?
A counselor fails to explain to a client how their assessment data will be used and shared. This oversight could lead to a breach of which ethical principle?
What is informed consent?
This psychological theory suggests that behavior is motivated by unconscious needs and desires.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory?