"Assessment is counseling and counseling is assessment! The evolving profession of counseling has entered the age of accountability, regardless of specialization or practice venue. Managed care and school reform have become important forces driving decision making in contemporary society. Given this context, the more a professional counselor knows about formal and informal assessment procedures, the more informed, effective, and efficient the professional counselor's treatment of clients and students can be. A second ...
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"Assessment is counseling and counseling is assessment! The evolving profession of counseling has entered the age of accountability, regardless of specialization or practice venue. Managed care and school reform have become important forces driving decision making in contemporary society. Given this context, the more a professional counselor knows about formal and informal assessment procedures, the more informed, effective, and efficient the professional counselor's treatment of clients and students can be. A second driving force comes from within the counseling profession itself. After many years of identity exploration and discussion, the counseling profession has agreed to a basic core of education and training standards that all professional counselors should meet. This book is designed to address the core curricular assessment requirements of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP, 2016), thereby providing state-of-the-art information on assessment and tests that professional counselors need to know"--
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