Using assessment results for career development
Subtitle: career counseling : a holistic approach
By: Vernon Zunker ; prepared by Debra Osborn, Vernon Zunker
Contributors: Osborn, Debra S., 1968-
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781111521271
Subjects: Vocational interests; Occupational aptitude tests; Vocational guidance
Description: "An excellent resource in both career development and tests and measurement courses, USING ASSESSMENT RESULTS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT, 8e vividly illustrates how to use assessment instruments to increase clients' self-awareness and help them make rational career choices. Extremely practical, this hands-on worktext delivers detailed information on applying knowledge of tests and measurements in clinical settings and using assessment results in a wide variety of counseling situations. Through case studies, charts, bulleted/numbered lists, dialogues, agency addresses, and more, students learn to truly master the use of assessment results."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Osborn's name appears first in the 7th ed.

Osborn's name appears first on the cover of the 8th ed.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A conceptual model for using assessment results; title: Interpreting assessment results; title: Some measurement concepts; title: Ethics and career assessment.; title: Aptitude and achievement tests; title: Interest inventories; title: Personality inventories; title: Career decision inventories; title: Computer-assisted career guidance and online career assessments; title: Card sorts and other non-standardized assessment approaches; title: Combining assessment results.