Using Assessment Results for Career Development 9th Edition by Debra S. Osborn, ISBN-13: 978-1305397774

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Using Assessment Results for Career Development 9th Edition by Debra S. Osborn, ISBN-13: 978-1305397774

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• Publisher: ‎ Cengage Learning; 9th edition (March 3, 2015)
• Language: ‎ English
• 272 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1305397770
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1305397774

Reflecting the latest practices from the field, USING ASSESSMENT RESULTS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT, 9th Edition vividly illustrates how to use assessment instruments to increase clients’ self-awareness and help them make rational career choices. Extremely practical, this hands-on text delivers detailed information on using assessment results in a wide variety of counseling situations. Case studies, charts, bulleted and numbered lists, dialogues, and agency addresses help readers effectively apply their knowledge of tests and measurements in clinical settings-ensuring that they truly master the use of assessment instruments.

Table of Contents:

Title Page

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: A Conceptual Model for Using Assessment Results

Advanced Organizer

Conceptual Perspective: Career Development through Assessment

Rationale for Assessment

Preparing the Practitioner for Using Assessment Results

A Model for Using Career Assessments in Career Counseling

The Importance of Relationship

Zunker’s Model for Using Career Assessments

Using the Model for Individual Counseling: A Case Example

Using Career Assessments to Stimulate Career Exploration in Groups

Adapting the Assessment Model to Groups

General Overview of This Book

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 2: Interpreting Assessment Results

Advanced Organizer

A Trait-Factor Approach to Assessment Interpretation

Connecting Career Assessments and Career Development Theories

Four Uses of Assessment

Diagnostic Uses of Assessment

Predictive Uses of Assessment

Comparative Uses of Assessment

Developmental Uses of Assessment

How, When and Whether to Use Assessment Results

Culturally Appropriate Career Assessment

General Steps to Interpreting Results

Emphasis on Dialogue

Using Holland Codes for Interpretation

International Career Testing

One-Shot Career Counseling

Career Counseling: Science, Education or Art?

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 3: Some Measurement Concepts

Advanced Organizer

Norms

Norm Tables

National Norms

Local Norms

Score Profiles

Differences between Scores

Relation of Norms to the Shape of a Profile

Scores as a Range

Transformation of Scores

Bell-Shaped Curve

Percentile Equivalents

Standard Scores

Stanines

Grade Equivalents

Criterion-Referenced Tests

Accuracy of Measurement

Reliability and Validity

Standard Error of Measurement (SEM)

Standard Error of Differences (SED) between Two Subsets

Expectancy Tables

Correlations

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 4: Ethics and Assessment

Advanced Organizer

The Purpose of Ethical Standards

Competence

Client Needs

Cultural Differences

Gender Issues

Sexual Orientation Issues

Confidentiality

Orientation

Technology and Assessments

Summary

Questions and Activities

Chapter 5: Aptitude and Achievement Tests

Advanced Organizer

Aptitudes

Aptitudes and Skills through the Lens of Theory

Aptitude Tests

Measured versus Expressed Skills

History Impacts on Aptitude Testing

Multi-Trait Measures

Types of Aptitude Tests

Review of Specific Aptitude Tests

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)

Aptitude Testing and People with Disabilities

Forensic Case in Which a CRC Has Been Asked to Be an Expert Witness

Multi-Aptitude Tests: Limitations and Suggestions for Use

Other Aptitude Tests

Achievement Tests

Difference between Aptitude and Achievement Tests

Do Beliefs Impact Achievement Scores?

Do Achievement Tests Predict Success?

Interpreting Scaled Scores for Achievement Tests

Types of Achievement Tests

Review of Specific Achievement Tests

Using Achievement Test Results for Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy Development

Suggestions for Career Development

Other Achievement Tests

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 6: Interest Inventories

Advanced Organizer

RIASEC Theory

Other Career Theories and Interests

Stability of Interests

Racial and Cultural Bias of Interest Inventories

Interpreting Interest Inventories

Interpreting Flat, Depressed, and Elevated Profiles

Profile Elevation

When RIASEC Codes Differ across Inventories

Review of Specific Inventories

Using the CISS in Counseling

Developing a Game Plan

Using the CDM-R in Counseling

Suggestions for Career Development

Other Interest Inventories

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 7: Using Personality Inventories

Advanced Organizer

The Role of Personality and Career Theory

Research on Personality Inventories

Using Personality Assessments in Career Counseling

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Instrument

Using the NEO in Career Counseling

Suggestions for Career Development

Other Personality Inventories

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 8: Career Beliefs and Decision-Making Inventories

Advanced Organizer

Theoretical Aspects of Career Decision Making

Impact of Beliefs on Career Decision Making

Review of Specific Career Decision Making Inventories

Using the BESI with a Job Search Strategies Class

Other Career Decision Inventories

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 9: Computer-Assisted Career Guidance and Online Career Assessments

Advanced Organizer

Online Inventories versus Online Career Systems

Ethical Issues with Computerized Career Assessments

Using Computerized or Online Assessments in Career Counseling

Other Types of Technological Assessments-Social Media, Apps and Games

Review of Specific CACGS and Online Systems

Other CACGS and Online Assessments

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 10: Card Sorts and Other Non-Standardized Approaches in Career Counseling

Advanced Organizer

Description of Card Sorts

Advantages and Disadvantages of Card Sorts

Basic Instructions

Sorting Behaviors

Sorting Alone or with the Counselor Present

Task Approach Behaviors

Interpreting Card Sort Results

Avoidance Themes

The Peterson and Lenz Approach

Clients Who Might Benefit from Card Sorts

Sample Card Sorts

The Career Values Card Sort Planning Kit

Using the Career Values Card Sort in a Career Advising Session

Motivated Skills Card Sort Planning Kit

Other Card Sorts

Using Non-Standardized Tools in Career Counseling

Career Construction Interview

Work History via Resume Analysis

Five Lives

Ideal Day

Life/Career Collage

Career Genogram

Other Non-Standardized Approaches

Summary

Questions and Exercises

Chapter 11: Combining Assessment Results

Advanced Organizer

Using a Model for Combining Assessment Results

Combining Separate Tests and Inventories

Summary

Questions and Exercises

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Debra S. Osborn (Ph.D., Florida State University) is an associate professor in the department of Counselor Education at Florida State University. She has an established program of research with three specific foci. These include the design and use of technology in counseling, innovation and effectiveness in counselor education, and the design and use of assessments in career services. Dr. Osborn is passionate about career counseling, having served as president of the National Career Development Association and as a counselor educator for almost two decades.

Vernon Zunker is a retired professor from Southwest Texas State University. He earned his Ed.D. with an emphasis on counseling from the University of Houston and completed a residency in clinical psychology at the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston. Although retired from teaching, Dr. Zunker continues to push the discipline forward by keeping career counseling relevant to all counseling students.

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