Welcome to Unit IV

Inventory Item Forms

EDS 596 Assessment Techniques in Counseling

Inventory Item FormsThese item forms are similar to

item forms used in tests….

Recognition SupplyAlternative Response Completion

Checklists Short-Answer

Multiple Choice Projective

Recognition Item Forms

Alternative Response….

Are you more:1. Rigid or Flexible 2. Happy or Sad 3. Tense or Relaxed

Would you rather….

make a book shelf read a book

Would you rather…..

plan your day just let the day happen

Recognition Item Forms

Alternative Response items…Drinking Patterns Screening InventoryDirections: Please read each item below and if the statement is true for you put a check under "Yes" and if it is not true of you, put a check under "No". Please answer all of the questions. (Forced Choice format)

Please check “Yes” or “No” to each of the following…. Yes No

Do you consider yourself a normal drinker?

Have you ever awakened the morning after an evening of drinking and had difficulty recalling the events of the night before?

Recognition Item Forms

Checklists…item endorsement.DIRECTIONS: The behaviors which a person learns determine to a large extent how well he or she gets along in life. Below is a list of behaviors which can be learned. Check the ones which you think you need to learn in order to function more effectively or be more comfortable.I need to learn:___ 1. to stop drinking too much.___ 2. to stop smoking too much.___ 3. to stop eating too much.___ 4. to control my feelings of attraction to members of the opposite sex.___ 5. to control my feelings of attraction to members of my own sex.___ 6. to overcome my feelings of nausea when I'm nervous.___ 7. to stop thinking about things that depress me.___ 8. to stop thinking about things that make me anxious.___ 9. to feel less anxious in crowds.___ 10. to feel less anxious in high places.

Recognition Item Forms

Multiple Choice Format

Within the past 30 days, how often have you experienced:

1. Sleep disturbance 2. A deep sense of loneliness 1 or 2 times 1 or 2 times 3 or 4 times 3 or 4 times 5 or 6 times 5 or 6 times 7 or more times 7 or more times

Recognition Item Forms

Multiple Choice Format

DIRECTIONS: Read each group of statements and circle the number next to the statement that seems most true of you at this time.

1. 0 I do not feel sad. 1 I feel sad. 2 I am sad all the time and I can't snap out of it. 3 I am so sad or unhappy that I can't stand it. 2. 0 I am not particularly discouraged about the future. 1 I feel discourage about the future. 2 I feel that I have nothing to look forward to. 3 I feel the future is hopeless and things cannot improve.

Beck Depression Inventory Beck (1961)

A Likert scale (pronounced/Lıkert ) is a psychometric scalecommonly used in questionnaires andsurveys, and is the most widely used scale in survey research, such thatthe term is often used inter-changablywith rating scale even though the twoare not synonomous. Whenresponding to a Likert questionnaireitem, respondents specify their level ofagreement to a statement.

Likert Scale Rensis Likert ( 1903-1981)

Likert Scales

# Item 1 2 3 4 5

1 I seek approval and affirmation from others.

2 I am afraid of the criticism of others

3 I isolate myself from and am afraid of people in authority roles.

4 I am not able to appreciate my own accomplishments and good deeds.

1=Never, 2=rarely, 3=Occasionally, 4=usually, 5=Always

Recognition Item FormsMultiple Choice Format

What is presented: a vague and non-specific stimulus

The Response: a projection of the client’s personality, knowledge, value, interest and ability

The answer then becomes a projection of the client….

The Projective Hypothesis

Supply Item FormsCompletion items..

Incomplete Sentences Form

Name:___________________________________________ Grade______ Date:________________

1. Today I feel______________________________________________________________________

2. When I have to read, I ______________________________________________________________

3. I get angry when__________________________________________________________________

4. To be grown up ___________________________________________________________________

5. My idea of a good time______________________________________________________________

6. I wish my parents knew_____________________________________________________________

7. School is________________________________________________________________________

8. I can't understand why______________________________________________________________

The Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB)

Supply Item FormsShort Answer items

Journal/Diary Entries:

Supply Item FormsShort Answer items

Journal/Diary Entries:

Supply Item FormsResponses need not be words.

Kinetic Family Drawing

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was developed by the American psychologists Henry A. Murray and Christina D. Morgan at Harvard University.

The instrument became popular during the 1930swith psychologists treating disturbed patients and it was used to assist in exploring the dynamics of human personality. It was said to assess drives, motivations, internal conflicts and interpersonal

TAT

Supply Item FormsResponses may be oral descriptions of what is seen.

Thematic Apperception Test

Supply Item FormsResponses may be oral descriptions of what is seen.

Rorschach

Hermann Rorschach 1884-1922

Supply Item FormsResponses may be oral descriptions of what is seen.

Rorschach

Rorschach

Supply Item FormsResponses may be oral descriptions of what is seen.

Rorschach

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