COUN 550 - Assessment and Evaluation Techniques in Counseling

Credits: 4.5

This course is designed to provide students with an examination of the skills, techniques, information, and principles necessary to become competent in the process of using educational, psychological, and vocational assessment in counseling contexts that include concepts necessary for the selection, administration, scoring and interpretation of individual and group tests. Students will be required to learn and practice various forms of client assessment. Because the practice of counseling is not an exact science, the profession is constantly reviewing ways in which we practice and conceptualize clients. Students in this course will also be required to utilize the body of literature, related to the practice of assessment in counseling, to inform and direct counseling practice. Student must be accepted into the CMHC program to register.

Prerequisites: COUN 530 (or co-requisite)