DOMAINS OF COUNSELING

Career Counseling
Child and Adolescent Counseling
Family and Parenting Counseling
Rehabilitation Counseling
Mental Health Counseling
Industrial Counseling
Crisis Intervention

CAREER COUNSELING

NAME OF THE TEST

CAREER ABILITY
PLACEMENT SURVEY
(CAPS) in 1974, 1995

MEASURE
Measures abilities related to
careers, vocational relevant
abilities and examines
abilities.

TEST DESCRIPTION
It has 9 scales or measures

CAREER ATTITUDES AND Assesses the common attitude,

STRATEGIES
feelings and experiences and
INVENTORY for
obstacles that influence career
understanding about careers,
in 1992 and 1994 developed
by John Holland, Gary D
Gottfredson

Employed and unemployed

adults

STRONG INTEREST
INVENTORY was initially
developed in 1927 by
psychologist Edward Kellog
Strong, Jr., revised by Jo-Ida
Hansen and David Campbell
in 1994.

The modern version of 2004 is

based on the Holland codes
typology of psychologist John
L. Holland.

Used in career assessment and

may be used in career
counselling to give insight into
a persons interests. It is
frequently used for educational
guidance as one of the most
popular career assessment
tools.

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT COUNSELING

NAME OF THE TEST

MEASURES

TEST DESCRIPTION

WECHSLER
PRESCHOOL AND
PRIMARY SCALE OF
INTELLIGENCE
David Wechsler, 1967
revised in 2002

Verbal and
performance
tests

AGE RANGE: 4-6.5 years

AGE RANGE: 5-15.5 years

WECHSLER
INTELLIGENCE
SCALE FOR
CHILDREN
J.A Radcliffe F. E.
Trainer, 1949(revised
in 1974)
RAVEN'S
STANDARD
PROGRESSIVE
MATRICES
John C. Raven,1938

Spearman's g
component

Other forms :
Colour Progressive
Matrices,
Advanced Progressive
Matrices

NAME OF THE TEST

MEASURE

BELL ADJUSTMENT
INVENTORY

Life adjustment :. Home,

Health, Social and
Emotional

H.M. Bell ,1968

TEST OF
BEHAVIOURAL
RIGIDITY

TEST
DESCRIPTION

Adjustment to stress

K. Warner Schaie,1995

COLLEGE
ADJUSTMENT SCALE
(CAS)

Frequent problems

AGE RANGE:
college students

Behaviour in classroom
setting

AGE RANGE: 518 years

William D. Anton and James R.

Reed,1991

MCGHEE-MANGRUM
INVENTORY OF
SCHOOL
ADJUSTMENT
Ronnie L. McGhee and Laurel
Mangrum,2007

REYNOLDS

Maladjustment:

Adolescent of

PERSONALITY SCALES

NAME OF THE
TEST
BIG FIVE
PERSONALITY
TRAIT
Goldberg (1992)

NEO-PI-R(NEO
PERSONALITY
INVENTORY,
REVISED)
Paul T. Costa Jr. & Robert
R. McCrae

COMREY
PERSONALITY
SCALES

MEASURE
The Big Five "Personality
theory.
O --- OPENNESS
C
--CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
E --- EXTRAVERSION
A
---AGREEABLENESS
N ---- NEUROTICISM

TEST
DESCRIPTION
Applicable to
various cultures

Form S self report

Form R
(separate forms
for males and
females)
observer rating.
The NEO- Five
Factor Inventory
(NEO-FFI) a
shortened
version of Form S
AGE RANGE:
college students
and adults

NAME OF THE TEST

16 PERSONALITY
FACTOR
(16 PF)
Raymond B. Cattell, Maurice Tatsuoka
and Herbert Eber

MYERS- BRIGGS TYPE

INDICATOR (MBTI)
Katharine Cook Briggs
Isabel Briggs Myers, based on Carl
Jungs typology

MEASURE
16 factors

Warmth
Reasoning
Emotional stability
Dominance
Liveliness
Rule consciousness
Social boldness
Vigilance
Sensitivity
Abstractedness
Apprehension
Open to change
Self-reliance
Perfectionism
Tension

Perception of world

TEST
DESCRIPTION
Good Internal
consistency
reliabilities

Split half
reliability

NAME OF THE TEST

MEASURE
MINNESOTA
Treatment plans
Differential diagnosis
MULTIPHASIC
Answer legal questions
PERSONALITY
(forensic psychology)
INVENTORY
screen job candidates
1943
MMPI-2 in 1989.

PERSONALITY
ASSESSMENT
INVENTORY
(PAI)
Leslie Morey (1994,2007)

EYSENCK
PERSONALITY
QUESTIONNAIRE

Used in
Psychotherapy
Crisis/evaluation
Forensic
Personnel selection
Pain/medical
Child custody
assessment.

Eysencks Personality theory

TEST DESCRIPTION
Adult
version(MMPI-A)1992.
Restructured Form
(MMPI-2-RF),
published in 2008
22 nonoverlapping scales
of four varieties:
1) validity scales
2) clinical scales
3) treatment
consideration scales
4) interpersonal
scales
Excellent rest retest
reliability

Eysenck (1975)

HOUSE TREE
PERSON
John N. Buck (1948)

Personality of individuals who AGE RANGE: 3

Culturally different
years and above
Educationally deprived
60 items

NAME OF THE
MEASURE
TEST
PERSONALITY
Emotional and behavioral
adjustment
INVENTORY FOR
Family interaction
YOUTH
David Lachar & Christian Neuro-cognitive
P. Gruber (1995)
Attention-related academic
functioning.
WAGNER
ENNEAGRAM
PERSONALITY
STYLE SCALES
Jerome P. Wagner (1999)

ROTTER
INCOMPLETE
SENTENCE
BLANK

TEST
DESCRIPTION
AGE RANGE:
children and
adolescent aged 9
to 18 years.

Personality styles
interpersonal dynamics
Work preferences,
Coping styles
Values
teaching/learning styles.
Unconscious aspect

200 items.
AGE RANGE: late
adolescence into
late adulthood.

Based on need press theory

Indian modification

Three forms
(School, College
and Adult)

Julian Rotter (1950)

RORSHACH
INKBLOT TEST
THEMATIC

FAMILY AND PARENTING

COUNSELING

NAME OF THE TEST

Firo Awareness Scales

Author: Schutz, W., Ph.D.
(1978). Consulting
Psychologists Press, Inc.

MEASURE

TEST DESCRIPTION

To assess degree to which

an individual seeks contact
with, control over, and
affection for others.

13 and up.
Time duration: 15 minutes

Adult-Adolescent
To assess the parenting and
Parenting Inventory-2
child-rearing attitude of
Author: Bavolek, S. J. and adults and adolescents
Keene, R. G. 2001 (original
AAPI published in 1979)

Teen and adult parents and

caregivers

Parenting Alliance
Measure (PAM)
Author: Abidin, R.R., &
Konold, T.R. (1999). PAR

Measures the strength of

1 to 19 years.
the perceived alliance
Time duration: 10 minutes
between parents of children

MENTAL HEALTH
COUNSELING

NAME OF THE TEST

MEASURE

HAMILTON ANXIETY RATING Psychic anxiety and somatic

SCALE

TEST
DESCRIP
TION
14 items

Max Hamilton,1959

GENERALIZED ANXIETY
DISORDER ASSESSMENT
(GAD-7)

Generalized anxiety disorder

Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JBW, Lwe B

DEATH ANXIETY SCALE

Donald.I Templar,1970
TAYLOR MANIFEST ANXIETY
SCALE (TMAS)
Janet Taylor , 1953

Anxiety about death.

15 items

Anxiety as general
personality trait.

50 items

DEPRESSION

NAME OF THE TEST

MEASURE

BECK DEPRESSION
INVENTORY

Characteristics, attitudes &

symptoms of depression

Aron beck, 1961

BECK DEPRESSION
INVENTORY 2ND ED.
Aron Beck, R.A. Steer, and G. Brown,
1996

Severity of depression

TEST
DESCRIPTION
AGE RANGE:
17-80 YEARS
21 items
AGERANGE: 1780 YRS
22 items

CARROLL DEPRESSION
SCALE
Bernard carroll

HAMILTON RATING
SCALE FOR
DEPRESSION-REVISED
(CLINICAL FORM)
R. M Bagby
A G. Ryder, Dr. Schuller, M.B Marsha,
1979

BECK HOPELESSNESS Predictor of eventual suicide AGESCALE

Three major aspects of
RANGE: 17Aron Beck, 1988;1993
hopelessness:
80 YR

PSYCHOSIS RATING
SCALES

NAME OF THE TEST

BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC
RATING SCALE
(BPRS)
D. R Gordam , 1962

POSITIVE AND
NEGATIVE SYMPTOM
SCALE FOR
SCHIZOPHRENIA
(PANSS)
S R Kay,1986

SCALE FOR
ASSESSMENT OF
POSITIVE SYMPTOMS
(SAPS)
N Andreasen, 1984

SCALE FOR
ASSESSMENT OF

MEASURE
Baseline
pathology,
clinical outcome
treatment
response

TEST DESCRIPTION
Excellent test retest
reliability

Schizophrenia
Alpha coefficient
Clinical profile &
analysis
treatment response split half reliability
discriminant
convergent validity

Good inter rater

reliability
Excellent Internal
consistency

NAME OF THE TEST

ALCOHOL USE
DISORDERS
IDENTIFICATION
TEST (AUDIT)
World Health Organization, 1989

DRUG ABUSE
SCREENING TEST
(DAST)

MEASURE
early signs of
hazardous and
harmful drinking
mild dependence

NOTES

Misuse of psychoactive
drugs

20 self administered
items/ structured
interview

Lifetime alcoholismrelated problems

24 self administered
items/ structured
interview

Harvey A. Skinner , 1982

MICHIGAN
ALCOHOLISM
SCREENING TEST
(MAST)
Melvin Selzer, 1971

High test retest &

internal reliability

NAME OF THE TEST

EATING ATTITUDES TEST
(EAT)

PURPOSE
Socio-cultural factors
in eating disorders

NOTES

Cognitive and
behavioural measure

AGE RANGE:
adolescent and
adults

Garner ,1982

STRILING EATING DISORDER

SCALES (SEDS)
Gwenllian-jane Williams & Kevin power, 1996

EATING DISORDER
DIAGNOSTIC SCALE (EDDS)
Stice et. Al,200

SCOFF QUESTIONNAIRE
Morgen et al, 1999

MINNESOTA EATING
BEHAVIOUR SURVEY (MEBS)
Mcgue et. al.

EATING DISORDER
INVENTORY (EDI)
David m. Garner, 1984

Presence of eating
disorders
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
Binge eating

AGE RANGE :10

years and older

INDUSTRIAL COUNSELING

BURNOUT
Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) by Taylor & Francis, 2012
Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) by Maslach, Christina; Jackson,
Susan E.; Leiter, P. Michael; Schaufeli, Wilmar B., 1996
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Emotional Competence Inventory (Based on Emotional
Competencies identified byDr. Daniel Goleman,1998; Competencies
from Hay/McBer's Generic Competency Dictionary, 1996; Dr. Richard
Boyatzis'sSelf-Assessment Questionnaire) by Sala, 2002
Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (Based on
Emotional IntelligenceModelof Mayer and Salovey ) by Mayer, Salovey
& Caruso 2002
Emotional Intelligence Appraisal Test (Based on Mixed Model
Approach Of Goldman) by Daniel Goldman, 1998
Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test (Based onSalovey
and MayersModelof Emotional Intelligence, 1990) by Schutte et al.,
1998
Emotional Quotient Inventory (Based on Bar-On Model for Social
Intelligence) by Reuven Bar-On & James D.A. Parker, 1997
Emotional And Social Competence Inventory by Daniel Goleman,
Richard Boyatzis & Hay Group, Inc.

CRISIS INTERVENTION

NAME OF THE TEST

1. Trauma symptom
checklist-40 (TSC-40)
Author: Eliot and Briere
(1992)

MEASURES
Self report measure of
symptomatic distress in
adults arising from
childhood traumatic
experiences.

TEST DESCRIPTION
40 items scale

2. Trauma Symptom
Inventory ( TSI)
Author:Briere (1996)

Global measure of trauma

sequeale

items are not keyed to a

specific traumatic event.

3. Impact of Event ScaleRevised (IES-R)

Author: Weiss and Marmar,
(1996)

Subjective distress caused by

traumatic events.

a 22 item self report measure

4. Traumatic Event
Screening Inventory ( TESI)
Author: Ford and Rogers,
(1997)

Measures a childs experience

of a variety of potential
traumatic events.

15 item clinician administered

interview