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1. Discuss several types of assessments used by professional counselors.
NOTES: Counselors use both nonstandardized and standardized tests in assessment. Nonstandardized tests include informal observations of the client behavior and self-reports of clients about themselves. Standardized test involve formal and consistent procedures for administering and scoring. The five types of standardized measures include intelligences tests, aptitude tests, achievement tests, interest inventories, and personality inventories.
2. Discuss the three (3) major stages of the counseling process.
NOTES: The individual counseling process generally goes through three stages. In the initial stage, a counselor-client relationship is established that focuses on understanding client problems; problems are assessed, tentative working hypotheses are developed, and goals are set. In the middle stage, a shift occurs in which the client turns inward, exploring feelings and developing insights. Client and counselor experience a sense of movement as they work through the client’s emotional turbulence, client and counselor transference and countertransference, and client resistance.
In the last stage, counselors help clients apply their new insights and attitudes to their behaviors in everyday life. As clients and counselors focus on attaining client goals, the relationship becomes more authentic, collaborative, and instructive. Counselors and clients then work toward effective termination by reviewing what they have accomplished and sharing their feelings about ending the relationships.
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