Psychodiagnostic tools in

guidance and counselling

Marcela Claudia Călineci, October 2012Romania

• The principles of guidance and counselling!Each person is special and unique.All persons are responsabile by their development.

• Constructivist paradigmeHuman nature is in continue evolution!“All the time I am present and creative.”“I cope with the change.”

• May be testing is forbiden word in counselling? What is fundament that this test is the best?

• Tests- only PRETEXT for discussions and reflections, but personal decisions are belonging to the clients in the process of accomplish the transferabile competencies!!!

• Tests on the market have a gap of at least 20 years from the last theoretical and experimental researches.

Premises...

• Evaluation is not compulsory, is not included in job description of school counsellors

• The counsellors did not usually apply the tests

• It is optional for counselling network

• 2012- Best practices of used instruments for children who enter in the preparatory class (6 years) or first grade (new educational law)

Educational/ school guidance and counselling

• The Evaluation Platform CAS++ (Cognitrom Assessment System)

• Neuropsychological Assessment Battery for children (3-12 years) NEPSY

• Development Evaluation Platform - Form A (3-6/7 years)• Development Evaluation Platform –Form B (6/7 – 18 years)• Neuropsychological Assessment Battery• Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales• Cognitive Assessment Questionnaire-emotional coping• Strategic approach to coping scale• Questionnaire for assessing children (3-7 years)• Adolescent Psychopathology Scale-Short Form (APS-SF)• Questionnaire assessment of learning strategies (8-12 years and

13-18 years old)• Eating Disorder Inventory - 3• Depression Anxiety Stress Scales

Psychological testing http://www.cognitrom.ro/en/

The Battery of Psychological Tests of Cognitive Abilities (BTPAC)

• Contains 23 tests (mintal functions- eg. learning, verbal, decision, work memory, etc.) and it represents the objectification of a new generation of psychological tests.

• Has been developed by a team of Psychology and Informatics experts, united by Cognitrom Ltd.

• It allows for the comparative analysis between the person’s abilities profile and the abilities requirements of a specific job (350 occupational profiles).

• Apply for career counselling and planning, evaluation of personnel.

• It is unique battery of aptitudes tests validated, adapted and normed on Romanian population

An education and career planning tool

Questionary of vocational and professional guidance focused on the idetification of interests

http://romania.testcentral.ro

JVIS/ Jackson Vocational Interest Survey

• adapted by J. Holland

• short form to evaluation of the interests

• a programme which create the matching between interests, preferences and ocupations

INTEROPTIONS

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• accredited by the Psychologists Board in Romania.

• offers automatically generated and customized psychological reports: individual psychological evaluation reports, the candidate’s profile, job-person matching report, job candidates ranking report.

• computerized psychological evaluation of abilities, interests, personality and emotions of children and teenagers, career guidance and remedy of mental health problems with children and teenagers.

• grounded on this rigurous scientific base

People forget what you say.

People forget what you do.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

BdC in Romania