How is information about personal values used in career counseling?

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1. What would you do if you were providing a psychological test to a counseling client and an issue arose in which your personal ethics were in conflict with the established state and/or federal laws and/or codes of ethics? Provide an example to support your response.

2. What serious ethical violation could occur if a counselor administered a psychological test incorrectly or without considering multicultural factors? Identify the ACA Code of Ethics statements that apply in this scenario.

3. When testing a client, what two ways could a counselor’s behavior affect the validity of the data gathered from the test results? In what ways could a counselor’s behavior affect the reliability of the data gathered from the test results? Explain.

4. Could a psychological test and assessment be invalid and still have reliability? Why or why not?

5. Find a test to assess, intelligence or education, find a similar alternative test for administration with an individual who may be blind, deaf, or nonverbal. How are they similar? How are they different?

6. Navigate to the Pearson Assessment website. Identify an assessment that could be used in a diagnosis. What is the assessment and what is the diagnosis? What are the attributes to be aware of when considering how to match the client and the test?

7. Why is it important for counselors and other behavioral health professionals to become familiar with the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)? How can use of the DSM’s cross-cutting symptom measures aid counselors in clinical diagnosing?

8. Define the following assessments and provide an example when each should be used:

1.Forensic assessment

2.Therapeutic assessment

3.Psychological assessment

4.Personality assessment

9. How is information about personal values used in career counseling? Is it important? Why or why not? How can personal religious or spiritual values play into career counseling?

10. What kinds of interest inventories might you use in your counseling practice? Why?

11. Go online and conduct a search for a free assessment test such as the ACE Study, Strong, the Beck Depression Inventory, or something similar. Take the test and evaluate the assessments in which you have participated. What are some insights you gained by using various instruments and strategies throughout this class? How might you apply this knowledge in the future when using assessments in counseling clients?

12. Simon, a 16-year-old male, has always performed adequately in school. This semester his math scores dropped from Bs to Fs, but his other grades have remained Bs. IQ testing with the WAIS-IV revealed that he has an average overall IQ without any major deficiencies. Do these normal findings provide useful diagnostic information? How so? What might be happening with Simon?

13. What are some insights you gained while studying psychological testing and assessment instruments as applied to the future of counseling? How might psychological testing and assessment of special population clients, including adolescents, victims of domestic violence, and those with a co-occurring disorder be applied in the future?

14. What are the three most important concepts that you learned throughout this course that you can apply in a clinical setting? Give an example of how you would apply the concepts learned to conduct an in-take assessment.

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Evaluation Title: Research Design

For this first assignment, you will analyze different types of research. To begin, please read and view the following materials:

  • Rice University. (2017). 2.2 Approaches to research (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. in, Psychology. OpenStax. [Electronic version]
  • University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. (2010). 2.2 Psychologists use descriptive, correlational, and experimental research designs to understand behavior (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. In Introduction to Psychology. [Electronic version]

 

Select one research design from column A and column B.

Column A = Experimental Design or Correlational Design. Column B = Case Study, Naturlistic Observation, Survey, or Longitudinal/Cross-Sectional Design

  1. Describe the design.
  2. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the design.
  3. Give an example of a study completed using this design.

This information is all available in the Unit 1 Learning Content. There are also resources available online to further your understanding.

Your assignment should be typed into a Word or other word processing document, formatted in APA style. The assignment must include:

  • Running head
  • A title page with Assignment name
  • Your name
  • Professor’s name
  • Course

Discuss how social and intimate relationships evolve and change during early and middle adulthood.

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Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you examine the psychological adjustments to aging and lifestyle that occur within individuals during early and middle adulthood. Be sure to include the following:

  • Discuss how social and intimate relationships evolve and change during early and middle adulthood.
  • Identify various role changes that occur during early and middle adulthood.
  • Examine the immediate and future impact of healthy and unhealthy habits practiced during early and middle adulthood.

Use a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

Discuss if the article addresses sources of error variance, reliability estimates, evidence of validity, or bias and fairness.

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In Unit 2, you selected one standardized test that has relevancy to your academic and professional goals to be the focus of your course project. Your Unit 2 assignment focused on the first four elements of the Code for selecting a test. For this assignment, you will complete a deeper analysis of the technical quality of your selected test by focusing on the fifth element of the Code, which states that the test user will “evaluate evidence of the technical quality of the test provided by the test developer and any independent reviews.” To complete this assignment, you will draw upon the knowledge you gained in Units 3 and 4 about psychometrics in general and reliability and validity in particular.

For this assignment, use the test you selected for your assignment in Unit 2. Locate and summarize a minimum of seven articles related to the technical qualities of the selected test. You are encouraged to use the PSY7610 Library Research Guide, linked in the resources, to assist your search.

For each article:

· List the APA reference for each journal article (a minimum of seven).

· Identify if the article addresses reliability or validity.

· Discuss if the article addresses sources of error variance, reliability estimates, evidence of validity, or bias and fairness.

· Identify the specific type of reliability or validity (for example, test-retest reliability, predictive validity, et cetera).

· Identify the overall results of the research, including any psychometric or statistical outcome.

Submit your analysis as a paper using the outline provided in the section “Organize Your Paper” below.

Guidelines for Selecting the Literature

Use the most current sources you can find. Do not use sources older than 8 years. (You may cite older sources if they are classics, if you want to show the chronology of something, or if you have another good reason. If you choose to use older sources, you will need to explain why.) Use current, peer-reviewed journal articles. Do not use sources without an author or a publication date. Do not use quotes; use only your own words. Please see the Academic Integrity and Plagiarism link in the resources for concerns with high content matching in papers. Evaluate whether the results support the use of your test as appropriate for your field and populations to be served.

Note: The articles you need to complete this assignment should be available inside the library collection. In future courses, you may use the Capella library’s Interlibrary Loan service to obtain articles outside of the collection, but you should not have to use the service for this course. In the event that you cannot find articles covering a newer test edition, please refer to the List of Tests by Type document, linked in the resources. Note which tests have been designated as acceptable for searching prior test editions.

Organize Your Paper

For your paper, use the following headings:

1. Title page (required).

2. Abstract (optional).

3. Introduction.

o Identify the standardized test you selected in Unit 2.

o Describe briefly the publisher’s stated purpose for its use.

o Identify briefly a population or psychological condition that is within the standardization of the test.

4. Technical review article summaries. Each article is to be directly related to your chosen test and one aspect of its technical quality. Note: Use an annotated bibliography for evaluative information format. (See the resources for additional information available at Capella about annotated bibliographies.)

o List the APA reference for each journal article (a minimum of seven).

o Identify if the article addresses reliability or validity.

o Explain how the article addresses sources of error variance, reliability estimates, evidence of validity, or bias and fairness.

o Identify the specific type of reliability or validity (for example, test-retest reliability, predictive validity, et cetera).

o Identify the overall results of the research, including any psychometric or statistical outcome.

5. Conclusion.

o Synthesize the information from all the articles you reviewed about reliability.

o Synthesize the information from all the articles you reviewed about validity.

o Evaluate if your test continues to be deemed as appropriate for your planned use in the field and with the population to be served.

6. References (required, use current APA format and style).

Additional Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

· References: A minimum of seven journal articles (textbooks, web pages, literature reviews, and the MMY book reviews do not count for these references).

· Length of paper: Evaluation must be at least five pages in length for content (not including title page, abstract, or references).

Reference

Joint Committee on Testing Practices. (2004). Code of fair testing practice