Counseling - Field Experiences
This guide has been designed specifically for students in the Counseling Field Experiences.
Assessment
The assessment section offers you resources to find assessment tools to evaluate the needs of your clients. As you review these resources, be sure you are selecting tools that have validity and reliability.
Tests and Measures Databases
Use these tools to find an assessment instrument. Please note: the purpose of these databases is to identify an assessment instrument but due to the nature of these tools the actual instrument may not be available as they are to be administered and interpreted by a trained professional.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print - EBSCO This link opens in a new windowComprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments
- PsycTESTS - EBSCO This link opens in a new windowProfessionally indexed, the PsycTESTS® database is an extensive collection of psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioral and social sciences.
- Psychiatry Online This link opens in a new windowCollection of psychiatric references, including books, journals and self-assessment tools. Provides access to the DSM-5. The following journals are available through this database: The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, and The Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences.
Sample eBooks
- The Professional Counselor's Desk Reference by Irmo Marini (Editor); Mark A. Stebnicki (Editor) This link opens in a new windowISBN: 9780826171818Publication Date: 2015-08-01
- Suicidal Behaviour by Updesh Kumar (Editor); Manas K. Mandal (Editor) This link opens in a new windowISBN: 9788132102991Publication Date: 2010-02-04
- Assessment and Case Formulation in Counselling and Psychotherapy by Biljana van Rijn This link opens in a new windowISBN: 9781446269794Publication Date: 2014-12-19
- Client Assessment by Stephen Palmer (Editor); Gladeana McMahon (Editor) This link opens in a new windowISBN: 9780803975033Publication Date: 1997-05-05
- Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients by Freddy A. Paniagua This link opens in a new windowISBN: 9781412999779Publication Date: 2013-12-02