Assessment of Individuals and Families in Counseling

Catalog description

Mental health assessment provides the counselor with information for performing correct diagnoses, developing treatment plans, and uncovering the dynamics underlying psychopathology as part of the total assessment of individuals and families. Students would acquire assessment interviewing skills to include biopsychosocial assessment to increase competence in making and explaining diagnoses with assessments relevant to individual counselors as well as marriage, couple, and family counselors. Students would analyze case studies to develop skills for determining the appropriateness of performing assessments, selecting types of assessment instruments, and writing mental health reports. Students would administer and interpret a personality inventory and learn the purpose, basics of interpretation, and rules of administration of various assessment instruments, including Intelligence tests, personality instruments, projective tests, neuropsychological tests, and disorder-specific tests.