Using Assessment Results for Career Development - Softcover

Osborn, Debra S.; Zunker, Vernon G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534632793 ISBN 13: 9780534632793

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2005

Synopsis

By Debra S. Osborn and Vernon Zunker. Useful in both career development and tests and measurement courses, this practical book illustrates how to use assessment results to increase clients' self-awareness and help them make rational career choices. Readers will find detailed information on applying knowledge of tests and measurements in clinical settings and using assessment results in a wide variety of counseling situations.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"Theories texts are important and cover a wide breadth of information. However, counselors are often looking for more applied information on how to actually go about the process of assessment and vocational counseling. This book is a wonderful addition to a theories text. I love that there are sample profiles for each of the instruments. No course has enough time for students to learn every instrument their future jobs will require of them. However, this allows them to be aware of what the instruments look and feel like."

"The book is the best resource available for helping students really understand how to integrate standardized assessment results into counseling practice. The concrete examples of profiles and illustrations of uses is particularly helpful."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0534632793
• ISBN 13: 9780534632793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416