KPI Assignment: Assessment Plan

This 10-page assignment will be completed in APA style format. Please include a title, abstract, and

reference pages and use at least 4 references due on 12/6/2022.

Students will prepare a written assessment and evaluation protocol for the setting in which they intend

to practice counseling. The paper will include a component where you will video record a discussion

about the results of the assessment and describe your overall assessment plan. Please complete the

following tasks:

1. Briefly describe the selected counseling setting, types of services provided, and the

demographic characteristics of the clientele served.

2. Describe the types of testing you will use in your selected setting (e.g., norm referenced testing,

group, or individual assessments, standardized or non-standardized testing, environmental,

observation) and select two specific assessments that you would use in your selected counseling

setting given the population served.

3. Identify and describe how your client’s academic/educational, career, personal, or social

development (choose one) will inform the selection of the two assessments and the assessment

process, as well as how you would use these assessments for diagnostic and treatment

intervention purposes.

4. Describe how you will effectively prepare for and conduct the assessment meeting.

5. What procedures will you use for assessing risk to self or others?

6. Describe the statistical methods (e.g., measures of central tendency, types of scores, indices of

variability, correlations, types of distributions) that you would expect to use to analyze the

results of the assessments selected for this plan. If your measure is not norm-referenced,

describe how cut-off scores are used.

7. What ethical and culturally relevant strategies will you use to select, administer, and interpret

these assessments and test results? This will include confidentiality, informed consent, etc.

8. Administer one of the two assessments selected for this assessment plans to a classmate or a

friend.

Provide a summary of the administration process and a video recording of the post-assessment

discussion session where you share the results of the assessment administered.

For the session with your peer, you may choose from the following Approved Assessment List for the

PYCL 0608 KPI Assignment. Please consult your instructor for approval if you are considering any

additional publicly available test.

A multitude of specific mental health measures, titled Level 2 measures, can be found at

https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educational-resources/assessment-measures