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The Referral Question: Purpose of Assessment by Setting or Context

Academic

- Admission to a school or a program- School or level placement (To determine the school or level appropriate for the client given

his/her abilities and limitations)- Addressing school behavior problems and academic delays/learning disabilities- Vocational/career (To identify appropriate college course given individuals set of strengths,

ea!nesses and interests" to identify best vocational fit given ones s!ill set

Industrial

- #mployment (To evaluate candidates and identify the best candidate given the re$uirements of

the position)

- %romotion (To determine the candidate that the company ill benefit from the most hen

promoted given future behavior as predicted by the assessment)

Clinical/Medical

- %sychological (&dentifying problems of living, ruling out psychiatric conditions)

- %sychiatric (Support in decision-ma!ing regarding future steps li!e admission or discharge,

suitability of intervention, presence of suicide ris!, etc')

- edical (&dentifying measures to address accompanying psychosocial component, ruling out

underlying psychological disorder, etc')

Legal

- Adoption or hild custody (&dentifying best arrangement considering the childs best interest *

assessment of mental health of both parent/guardian and child)

- +orensic (#vidence of insanity in criminal cases) Specialization ko ito

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- &ntelligence Tests

- Achievement Tests

- %ersonality Tests

- ther Tests7 8ob s!ills, &nterests, otivation, etc'

"ntelligence: #efinitions of "ntelligence an$ Theories of "ntelligence

Themes

- The capacity to learn from e0perience

- The capacity to adapt to ones environment

Theories of Intelligence

- 4alton and Sensory 9eenness

o &ntelligence as underritten by !een sensory abilities, meaning information from

outard events pass through our senses - the more perceptive the senses are, the larger is

the field upon hich our intelligence can act

- Spearman and the g +actor

o &ntelligence encompasses three principles of cognition7

Apprehension of #0perience (The ability of having a foresight)

#duction of relations (The ability to logically decide on direct relationships)

#duction of correlations (The ability to logically decide on indirect relationships

* bi-affinity)

- Thurstone and the %rimary ental Abilities

o There are e0isting group factors representing special abilities

Verbal omprehension %

:ord +luency (6o fluent one person is on a specific language) %

;umber (

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