Testing in Guidance and Counselling

Contents: Preface. 1. Testing in guidance services. 2. Non-testing techniques. 3. Intelligence. 4. Aptitude. 5. Interest. 6. Personality. 7. Creativity. 8. Attitudes. 9. Adjustment. 10. Psycho-therapy. Bibliography.

"Testing in guidance and counselling can be defined as the process of helping and inability people in their career development. A career counsellor would be facing clients whose are making career decisions and choices or coping with life changes which relate to their working life career changes, redundancy and unemployment.

Testing in guidance and counselling is perfectly suited as a main text for upper level undergraduate and post graduate testing or psychometrics courses in departments of psychology, counselling and guidance, education, sociology, management, and in human services disciplines. Professional researchers, educators, and consultants will also want to add this to guidance and counselling for up-to-date coverage of test design and evaluation techniques.

The book covers a wide spectrum of topics relating to testing in guidance and counseling, testing in guidance services, intelligence, aptitude, interest, personality attitudes, adjustment and psychotherapy, meaning, definitions, concepts, principles and types of guidance and counselling, psychological tests, successful models of testing in guidance and counselling, and so on. Researchers, teachers, parents, and all those who have o guide and counsel students in matters relating to education and personal problems." (jacket)